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An American technology leader IBM has shared positive news: IBM stock jumps 5%, which results from appointing a new CEO.On Thursday, IBM closed at $137.69 per share, 5% more than the day before. And it is continuing its growth, the price makes up $142.10.IBM stock jumps 5% after its announcement about the change in the board of directors. Arvind Krishna, the current IBM Senior Vice President for Cloud and Cognitive Software, will serve as CEO. Further, Jim Whitehurst, Red Hat’s former CEO,...

Michigan-based General Motors (GM) is turning heads with a new announcement. The automaker has announced that it will resurrect the popular Hummer truck, making it all-electric, and a lot more power-packed than previous offerings.The New GM HummerDescribing it as a “super truck”, GM has said that the new vehicle will be launched as a GMC. It will be called the GMC Hummer EV as it is an all-electric vehicle and will have improved torque and acceleration. The company says that the new GM Hummer...

Traders of Bitfinex got the ability to trade the stablecoin XAUT with a maximum of 5x leverage. Bitfinex also pumps up BTC/USD margin trading pair to the same maximum.Last week Bitfinex presented a new stablecoin Tether Gold. It is backed by the gold bars hidden in the unknown Swiss vault. Tether claimed that they have ‘direct access’ to the vault. The margin trading option as announced on Tuesday, against the U.S. dollar, Tether and BTC. The initial equity can be 20%.Margin trading will...

Place/Date: - January 31st, 2020 at 1:50 pm UTC · 3 min read Contact: Lumi Wallet, Source: Lumi Wallet Photo: LUMILumi Wallet has shown exceptional growth in its user base and functionality during 2019, and after working hard on fine-tuning its API is ready to present a bunch of new features in February.The year 2019 was exceptional for Lumi Wallet. First and foremost, it’s in part thanks to the contribution of the users who chose Lumi as their main cryptographic wallet.From the beginning...

Ethereum Futures might be the next significant product coming to the cryptocurrency scene, said the CFTC Charmain, Heath Tarbert.Furthermore, he expressed his hopes once again that the United States can lead the race for both digital assets and blockchain adoption. This aligns with Bakkt plans, as CryptoPotato reported this week.Ethereum Futures Coming Soon?Bitcoin has dominated the cryptocurrency Futures market, but Ethereum might soon have its own similar product, according to Tarbert. The...

Amazon has released impressive earnings figures for its fourth quarter. The figures show that the company beat its expectations for what its efforts for the quarter would yield. Amazon announced that its holiday sales profit crossed $3 billion. In response, Amazon stock jumped 13%, pushing its valuation into the neighborhood of $1 trillion.Amazon Holiday Sales Quarter HighlightsAmazon reported a total profit of $3.3 billion for the holiday quarter recently concluded with a total revenue of...

Verasity, the attention-based rewards platform for content creators, finished 2019 on the right note. And 2020 is looking even better.The team has been working hard on key relationships, which culminated in its partnership with Jun Capital, a gateway to the lucrative Asian streaming market. Outside of promising professional relations, Verasity released its metrics for a fervent Q4 2019 that entailed a 20X increase in videos watched and a 10X increase in wallet registrations since the launch...

Ripple and XRP were directly mentioned at a United States Congressional Hearing that was held on Thursday 30, January 2020. The hearing, which was titled ‘Is Cash Still King?’, was set by U.S. lawmakers to decide the fate of cash with relation to the rise of XRP and other cryptocurrencies.During the hearing, Congress directly mentioned blockchain firm Ripple and the efforts it has made with the adoption of XRP. So, someone eventually got it to spot on by recognizing that there is a popular...

Hyperledger Fabric, the thriving open-source brainchild of the Hyperledger Foundation, now has a second version, Fabric 2.0. It has become known from an official announcement of its release.Second Version, First of its KindHyperledger was created in 2015 by the Linux Foundation and has had support from the most prominent or influential institutions, even from diverse spaces such as IBM, SUP, Intel, JP Morgan and even engineering conglomerates such as Daimler. The open-source blockchain...

Stablecoins now have a larger share of value transferred on the Ethereum network than its native cryptocurrency – ETH.Even though the continuously increasing interest towards stablecoins appears as a concern to some, Changpeng Zhao believes that they are still needed for mass adoption.Stablecoins’ Flip On The Ethereum NetworkYesterday, new research by Messari, found out that ETH is no longer carrying the most substantial transfer value on the Ethereum network as stablecoins have surpassed...