Author: dumbcapital

Coinbase acquires Distributed Systems to build ‘Login with Coinbase’

Coinbase wants to be Facebook Connect for crypto. The blockchain giant plans to develop “Login with Coinbase” or a similar identity platform for decentralized app developers to make it much easier for users to sign up and connect their crypto wallets. To fuel that platform, today Coinbase announced it has acquired Distributed Systems, a startup…

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Turkey to Trump: we don’t want your stinkin’ iPhones

With Turkey President Tayyip Erdogan announcing this week that his country would boycott all US electronics in response to President Trump’s new tariffs on the region, one Silicon Valley company suddenly found itself in the Turkish crosshairs: Apple Angered that Trump’s trade-war rough-riding had helped bring down the Turkish lira to an all-time low, Erdogan…

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Shelf Engine uses machine learning to stop food waste from eating into store margins

Shelf Engine’s team While running Molly’s, the Seattle-based ready meal wholesaler he founded, Stefan Kalb was upset about its 28 percent food wastage rate. Feeling that the amount was “astronomical,” he began researching how to lower it — and was shocked to discovered Molly’s was actually outperforming the industry average. Confronted by the sheer amount…

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