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Microsoft to Offer Blockchain to Banks With New Partnership

Microsoft has teamed with a consortium of banks to help develop new methods for using the blockchain — the technology that underpins Bitcoin — to support financial transactions. 

R3 CEV, which is developing blockchain-based applications for a consortium of more than 40 banks, will have access to Microsoft’s Azure cloud offerings as part of a strategic partnership between the two companies. Banks in the consortium with the New York-based R3 include Bank of America, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and UBS.

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At Build, Microsoft tried a different way to mobile developers’ hearts

At its Build developer conference last week, Microsoft showed how it plans to stay relevant in the mobile computing market without a popular mobile OS.

Microsoft’s plan isn’t so much to rely on developers building applications for Windows 10 Mobile, but rather to create tools to help them build apps on any OS and hope this trickles down to help Microsoft as a whole.

One key move in this regard is releasing Xamarin’s tools to developers for free. Xamarin, which Microsoft acquired a few weeks ago, lets developers create apps for iOS and Android using C#, a programming language that Microsoft originated.

Analyst Patrick Moorhead said in an interview that Microsoft’s Xamarin announcement would be huge news for enterprises, which would benefit immensely from the ability to write in one language and deploy across three different platforms.

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