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Virtual social network IMVU raises $35M from China’s NetEase and others

TechCrunch

The line between social networking and gaming is increasingly blurring , and internet incumbents are taking notice. Founded in 2005, NetEase is now known for its news portal, music streaming app, education products and video games that compete with those of Tencent. We have many shared business philosophies and complementary know-how.

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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

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So in 2005, he launched reCAPTCHA. Users would complete the security test while also helping to digitize books for the Internet Archive. In 2009, he sold reCAPTCHA to Google , a transaction conducted just a year after the internet giant had purchased a license to one of his other research projects , a game focused on image labeling.

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DNSSEC?—?Helping Secure The Internet

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Helping Secure The Internet First Published: March 7, 2014, By Dirck Copeland?—?Technical Technical Consultant The DNS (Domain Name System) is one of the most critical protocols in use on the Internet. Virtually every end-user transaction involves a DNS query. An emphasis was placed on expediting the deployment of DNSSEC.

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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. As the internet grew, the amount of information available to consumers became so vast that it outran traditional human means of curation and selection. The market was maturing.

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Explore the Worlds of Startups and Science with AI Experience Worldwide Speakers Alexis Ohanian and Bill Nye

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AI Experience Worldwide , our free virtual conference, is just a few weeks away. Alexis has built a career as a successful entrepreneur and investor, perhaps most notably as the co-founder of Reddit , aka the “front page of the internet.” He is a strong proponent of STEM education, an open internet, and paid family leave.

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John Carmack Biography

The Crazy Programmer

His company developed various shareware and Internet Distribution Channels that brought a revolution in the field of computer games and how they were sold. Quake offered multiplayer gaming on the internet. Carmack left id Software in 2013, and become Chief Technology Officer at Oculus, a virtual reality company.

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4 Local SEO Tips for YouTube Videos

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The video-sharing platform was founded in 2005, bought by Google a year later, and now in 2022 boasts over 122 million active daily users and is the second most visited website in the world. Virtually all SEO strategies involve keyword research on some level. We all know Google is a search engine giant. Use Keywords in Titles.

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