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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...

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...

Mercedes-Benz will be employing the use of blockchain technology to track carbon emissions in cobalt supply after teaming up with Circulor, according to an official press statement.As part of the Ambition2039 project, Mercedes-Benz, according to its press release, has now made the identification of the next generation of automobiles, one of its highest on its priority list. And doing this means getting ahead of the lot in the application of new cutting edge technology.According to the...

As cryptocurrencies have grown, and people started to invest (and earn) bigger amounts of money, of course, that the regulators saw their chance to take something for themselves. By saying ‘something’ – it is usually meant of tax. One of the biggest regulatory arguments in the cryptocurrency space is concerning the legal status of digital assets. The regulators always want to describe every digital asset as a security or a commodity because then, they could tax it.However, XRP is one of the...

Bitcoin cash price is showing a lot of positive signs above the $360 and $350 supports against the US Dollar.The price is currently trading just below the key $400 and $405 resistance levels.There is a rising channel forming with support near $378 on the 4-hours chart of the BCH/USD pair (data feed from Coinbase).The pair could start another surge once it clears the $400 resistance area.Bitcoin cash price is trading in a bullish zone above $360 against the US Dollar. BCH/USD is likely to...