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Singapore-based Accredify gets $7M to make sure your documents are real

TechCrunch

But it was his experience as an accountant that led to his interest in the blockchain and how it can be used to verify documents. What intrigued me was the capability of the technology to allow for real-time authentication,” Quah told TechCrunch. It creates a wallet, or document store, which is a smart wallet on the Ethereum network.

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Arkive is building the world’s first decentralized museum

TechCrunch

TechCrunch spoke to the company’s founder, Tom McLeod, to find out why we need a blockchain-powered museum. Let me just start by saying that I’m generally pretty bearish on blockchain tech, and nobody in their right mind would pitch a crypto startup to me. That’s the premise of Arkive , which just raised a $9.6

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Travel Startups and Tourism Trends to Invest In

Altexsoft

Severely struck by the coronavirus pandemic, the travel industry is slowly but steadily reaching its full potential. Shifts in travel patterns opened up new niches for startups, giving them a unique opportunity to harness the emerging trends and address important but so far unmet customer needs. Sustainable travel.

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LG announces the first 50 participants in its LG Nova program

TechCrunch

Snickerdoodle Labs – Uses blockchain to build agnostic data-sharing layer that enables individuals to control and even monetize their personal data through a tokenized data architecture. swIDch – Provides secure, next-generation authentication for every digital identity environment, even off-the-network. I-EMS Group, Ltd.

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Twig takes $35M to turn stuff you own into a way to pay

TechCrunch

Typically from the funds that are being transferred to Twig we see that roughly 42% of them get used for new experiences — that might be travelling, it might be… experience-led — so it doesn’t mean that if you increase liquidity you necessarily increase consumerization of things that have a negative impact on the environment.

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Yep, ‘Learning Man’ is becoming a thing 

TechCrunch

Participants collectively held over 30 presentations, talking about everything from travel hacks to fertility 101 to date night planning. I think it would change the nature of it, it was a small key experiment and I think we want to keep the authenticity of it.” Mohnot got married to his wife last month in the Taco Bell metaverse).

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Soaring customer-service expectations are driving the need for servitization

Capgemini

The pandemic completely disrupted the travel industry. Worldwide air travel decreased 43.5 As travel begins to rebound and airlines work to re-build capacity, there is an opportunity to disrupt traditional business models and drive transformation efforts.