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Capsule gets $1.5M to build ‘super simple’ decentralized social media

TechCrunch

“The Internet Computer will hopefully be helping us build a ‘customized mini-blockchain’ to solve two issues with Capsule: Global authenticated timestamps for posts as well as a root of trust for user’s authentication keys for posts,” he says.

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Amazon’s Blockchain Venture: Understanding the Bigger Picture

Brainvire

In November 2018, the cloud giant AWS announced two distributed ledger services powered by Blockchain technology. In this article, I will shed a light on the intricacies of these Blockchain-as-a-Service (BaaS) offerings along with their USPs. distinguish it from the crowd. trillion by 2030. Removes intermediaries.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Holiday marketing tips, low-cost NFTs, SaaS sprawl study

TechCrunch

Boston-based VC firm OpenView interviewed nearly 600 SaaS companies for its annual pricing survey and the results are in: Automation is taking usage-based pricing (USP) mainstream. Last year, 34% of survey respondents said they were using a flexible pricing model. This year, that figure rose to 45%.

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Shipping APIs: How to Connect Your Business System to Transportation and Delivery Providers

Altexsoft

USPS is the cheapest and is usually the carrier of choice for small businesses that handle lightweight shipments. USPS is a government-run company that provides postal services in the US. USPS Shipping for Business offers a variety of tools, including the USPS Web Tools API Portal. protocol for authorization.

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How to Connect to Transport Providers: Key Carriers, EDI, APIs, e-AWB

Altexsoft

Striving to join and digitalize the entire supply chain, they collaborated with IBM to introduce the blockchain-based platform for secure submission, validation, and approval of documents across organizations, with the implementation of paperless trade. TradeLens blockchain API. The software is based on Oracle’s blockchain.