On March 9, one of the leaders of ambitious project called Humaniq, a famous blockchain entrepreneur and journalist, Richard Kastelein will speak at Blockchain & Bitcoin Conference Tallinn.

Humaniq is a mobile bank based on blockchain and biometric user identification (without passports and signatures). Blockchain community has called the project Bank 4.0.

Four experienced Stanton Chase executives have stepped up to lead the Stanton Chase India team, bringing young dynamism and ensuring continuity in the region.

Have you ever wondered why legions of taxi companies never tried to steal Uber’s thunder by building their own cab-hailing app? Taxi Magic tried it. Who? Right. It didn’t go well.

I’ll leave the case study to Harvard Business School, but here’s the takeaway: Innovators disrupt themselves or their markets because they can. Followers see a hot trend and try to add it incrementally to their existing line of business. Spectators simply see change as a passing fad.

“This is not good”, I thought. It was roughly half an hour after the restaurant ordered our taxi. The wind had just begun to whip sleet into my face. It was almost midnight. We were on the very edge of town, in an area with — as far as I could see — no buses. We called the taxi company — it had no record of our having ordered a cab. The soonest it could get a car to us was 45 minutes.

The last chapter of ValueWeb talks about what comes after the third generation internet: the internet of value.  This is the internet being built today, based upon shared ledgers, cloud, apps, APIs and analytics.  Of course, the next generation is the internet of things.  But what comes after that?

Allianz Deutschland AG, the global technology consultancy DataArt, the insurance analysts Franke und Bornberg and the strategy and management consultancy zeb are organizing a hackathon on March 24 – 25, 2017 for the insurance sector – the #_hackNEXT. The event will be held in Werk1 in Munich. Within 30 hours, interdisciplinary teams consisting of developers, programmers, designers and inventors will create new software solutions and business ideas. 

The teams will face three central challenges of the insurance sector:

JCB International Co. Ltd., the international operations subsidiary of JCB Co., Ltd. joined nexo Standards, the open standards association dedicated to the creation of implementation specifications for global card payment acceptance, as the Principle Member in its Card Schemes category.  

“Imagine a journey, where instead of looking for information & options someone guides you. The i-commerce Platform is an experience that will get your thinking going, bring more innovation and enhance the present customer experience.” Ritesh Srivastava, Founder & CEO, Epictenet