Mediaocean, the foundational software provider of the advertising world, and IBM iX, one of the world's largest digital agencies and global business design partners, announced the launch of a blockchain consortium for the digital media supply chain.

Companies in South East Europe are increasingly embracing cloud technologies – private cloud solutions prevail, however almost half of surveyed companies have chosen hybrid multi-cloud solutions.

Apple plans to eliminate an iPhone security vulnerability that has been used by U.S. law enforcement agencies to hack into the devices during investigations, according to Bloomberg.

At CEBIT 2018, held last week in Hannover, Germany, Huawei released its latest IoT and AI products to help enterprises create intelligent and connectivity genes to build digital neurons and accelerate digital enterprise transformation.

At CEBIT in Hannover, Germany, IBM announced a major expansion of its cloud capabilities with plans to launch 18 new availability zones for the IBM Cloud.

Deutsche Bank will be the only major German lender to be represented at the CEBIT fair.

IBM and partners launched the Call for Code Global Initiative, the largest and most ambitious effort to bring startup, academic and enterprise developers together to help with natural disasters.

SoftBank has implemented an innovative method for radio access network design from Ericsson, based on machine intelligence.

Veridium Labs is collaborating with IBM to help transform the carbon credit market using blockchain technology with the goal of making it easier for companies to offset their environmental footprints.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced that it has supported Gatwick Airport, the UK’s second largest airport and a critical national infrastructure site, in future proofing its entire IT network.

Microsoft and Red Hat expanded their alliance to empower enterprise developers to run container-based applications across Microsoft Azure and on-premises.

ICEmarket, a product of an established global yacht events company, Jadranski skiperi, and a software development agency Calyx, was officially launched last month in Greece during the annual Charter Meetup Athens.

Marsh, in collaboration with IBM ACORD, and ISN, announced the plans for using blockchain technology in commercial proof of insurance.

Ericsson Media Solutions announced the launch of its MediaFirst End-to-End Ultra High Definition (UHD) solution, the industry’s first software-based, multi-application media processing and encoding platform to deliver UHD content from camera to consumer, across the entire media delivery landscape.

As companies look to embrace AI to gain competitive advantage and increase productivity, IBM unveiled a new data science and machine learning platform and an elite consulting team to help them accelerate their AI journeys.

MobileIron and Lenovo announced that they're expanding their partnership to build and bring to market a new offering that helps companies deliver modern work experiences to their employees.

Batavia, the blockchain-based global trade finance platform, that has been jointly developed by IBM and a consortium consisting of banks, has successfully completed its first live pilot transactions with corporate clients.

Hewlett Packard Enterprise announced new offerings to help customers ramp up, optimize and scale artificial intelligence (AI) usage across business functions.

China’s aspiration to deploy 30 million autonomous vehicles within a decade is seeding a fledgling chip industry, with startups like Horizon Robotics emerging to build the brains behind those wheels, according to Bloomberg.

Israel wants to recruit 100,000 volunteers over five years for a research project that it hopes will turn it into a global leader in digital health care, according to Bloomberg.

There are two major themes that bookend the enterprise conversation about cloud adoption. On one hand, businesses are compelled to move more workloads to the cloud to seize the new opportunities presented by AI, Machine Learning, IoT or even next-generation quantum computing or risk getting left behind.

A version of the technology that’s meant to make cryptocurrency payments faster and cheaper went live Thursday, according to Bloomberg.

Moscow Government has launched Digital Home, a solution that enables holding online meetings and polls between neighbors and operates via blockchain-based platform Active Citizen.

Google’s artificial intelligence technology is being used by the U.S. Department of Defense to analyze drone footage, a rare and controversial move by a company that’s actively limited its work with the military in the past, according to Bloomberg.

SEAT is set to become the first carmaker in the world to integrate Shazam, one of the world’s most popular apps.

Ericsson is launching the IoT Accelerator Marketplace to help address the need for collaboration within the digital ecosystem community and benefit developers and service providers alike.

Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits will present its latest mobile communication developments towards 5G at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

IBM announced enhancements to its line of software-defined storage line called Spectrum Storage. The upgrades address today’s data volume demands, as well as meeting client needs for security and management of data sets.

LG will introduce the first of a suite of AI technologies for its smartphones at this year’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Security and risk management leaders must take a pragmatic and risk-based approach to the ongoing threats posed by an entirely new class of vulnerabilities, according to Gartner.