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May 22, 2015

The latest news about growth and innovation within the enterprise space.

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Mohammad Albattikhi - Acceleration Manager at Oasis500

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New York Stock Exchange Launches Bitcoin Price Index

Yessi Bello Perez - CoinDesk

"The move comes after the Wall Street stock exchange invested in Coinbase's $75m Series Cfunding round, which closed in January this year.Speaking to CoinDesk following the announcement, Farley said: "With this investment, we are tapping into a new asset class by teaming up with a leading platform that is bringing transparency, security and confidence to an important growth market."

HTC Vive: Virtual Reality That's So Damn Real I Can't Even Handle It

Carlos Rebato - GIZMODO

"The HTC Vive uses two sensors you need to hang on the wall at a 90 degree angle. These track you pretty much wherever you are or whatever you do. Crouch, jump, lean, turn your head, tilt, look up, down, left, right, and the system will be able to keep tabs on exactly where you are based on the position of your head."

Google Drops Cloud Computing Prices By Up To 30 Percent, Launches Preemptible Instances

Frederic Lardinois - Tech Crunch

"A Micro instance on Google Cloud platform will now cost as little as $0.006 per hour under regular usage. For other instance types, the price cuts are somewhat less dramatic and range between 5 percent for High CPU instances and 20 percent for the Standard instances."

Google's latest experiment brings new superpowers to Chrome browsers

Mashable

"Tone, the company's newest homegrown browser add-on, uses sound to quickly share URLs with anyone nearby. The extension is available now in Chrome's web store and can be used by any Chrome user"

Popcorn Time, a controversial streaming service for pirated movies, is now easier than ever to use.

CNN Money

"The people behind Popcorn Time launched PopcornInYourBrowser.net. The site lets you choose from thousands of movies that have been shared using the torrent protocol -- a peer to peer network that allows people to share media with one another."

IBM's Watson computer can now do in a matter of minutes what it takes cancer doctors weeks to perform

Business Insider

"IBM is positioning Watson for exactly this task: an area of medicine where humans can see the vast potential, but can't begin to wrangle the data needed to achieve it. "Genomics is the secret to unlocking personalized medicine," said Steve Gold, a Vice President of the IBM Watson Group"

Microsoft's Outlook team is working on a chat-style email app called Flow

Mashable

Flow, which was first spotted by Twitter user h0x0d, is currently being tested internally at Microsoft, according to a leaked description from a download page. Interchangeable with Outlook, the app is "a great way to have rapid email conversations on your phone with the people who are most important to you," according to the description.

LG unveils a super-thin OLED TV you can stick to a wall

Mashable

"LG Display has unveiled an extremely thin and light OLED display prototype, paving the way for a new generation of super-thin TVs.The new OLED panel measures 55 inches diagonally, weighs 4.2 pounds and is only 0.97mm (0.04 inches) thick. Best of all — you can simply stick it to a wall with a magnetic mat."

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