Remove .Net Remove 2001 Remove Marketing Remove Security
article thumbnail

Egypt’s e-commerce platform Wasla nabs $9 million from retail finance provider Contact

TechCrunch

Contact has been in the business of consumer finance since 2001, while Wasla was founded in 2018 by former Serag Meneassy and Taymour Sabry , both ex-Rocket Internet entrepreneurs, and investment banker Mahmoud El Said. “It’s In the checkout phase, we plan to introduce a very secure payment method…limited by time or value.

eCommerce 223
article thumbnail

Cybersecurity 2030

Haft of the Spear

Discussions about cybersecurity overwhelmingly focus on the recent, which are our responses to the design and engineering decisions of the past. Yet in cybersecurity [1] the path towards a brighter future is rarely discussed. To parahprase William Gibson, this cybersecurity future is already here, it is just not evenly distributed.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

IT Governance Maximises IT Returns

The Agile Manager

So it is with IT projects: an extremely efficient IT project will still fail if it is blindsided because a market doesn’t materialise for the solution being developed. This opacity of IT is no different from opacity in an asset market: it makes the costs, and therefore the returns, of an IT asset much harder to quantify.

article thumbnail

Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

For many years, we will be measuring how loss of corporate credibility has tainted all facets of business, in terms of remediation, replacement, litigation, make-good, rework, damage control, recovery process, settlements to victims, decreased stock market value and sagging retail sales. Net income or loss includes those items.

article thumbnail

The Worst Possible Day: U.S. Telecommunications and Huawei

The Cipher Brief

National Security Council Staff. The emergence of the Chinese company Huawei as a leading provider of integrated telecommunications systems is seen as such a security threat that the U.S. The United States, in the wake of a major economic downturn in 2001–02, made “free market” decisions by allowing U.S. Opening Gambit.

article thumbnail

The Big Picture of Business – Business Lessons to be Learned from the Enron Scandal

Strategy Driven

The Enron scandals of 2001 and 2002 focused only upon cooked books audit committees and deal making. The pivotal event was the passage of the Securities Reform Act of 1995, also dubbed the ‘Securities Rip-off Act.’ Executives never stayed long. At Enron, it was dictatorial and repressive to new ideas.