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What You Need To Know About Mary Meeker’s 2017 State of the Internet Report

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Her yearly report on the state of the Internet (available at Internet Trends Report and embedded below) provides context relevant to just about every enterprise decision-maker. Growth in Internet connectivity is also slowing. Same with Internet connectivity. billion gamers in 2017. For the U.S., So analyze that!

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Why entrepreneurs claim there’s no better place to do business than Puerto Rico

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Lugo founded Internet Vision Development (INVID) to fill this gap, customizing off-the-shelf software for customers. But when Hurricane Maria, a devastating category-5 storm, struck the island in September 2017, Lugo’s business came to a standstill. The island has also hardened its infrastructure substantially since 2017.

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Indonesian crypto platform Reku is built for both new and experienced traders

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Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. In 2017 and 2018, crypto was not this big but we saw a huge opportunity there.

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Authors are losing their patience with AI, part 349235

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After a day full of righteous online backlash, Prosecraft creator Benji Smith took down the website, which had existed since 2017. But tools like ChatGPT are basically trained on the sum total of the internet, so this means that real travel writers or children’s books authors could be getting inadvertently plagiarized.

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Cybersecurity training startup Hack The Box raises $10.6M Series A led by Paladin Capital

TechCrunch

Started in 2017, Hack The Box specializes in using “ethical hacking” to train cybersecurity techniques. Haris Pylarinos, Hack The Box co-founder and CEO said: “Everything we do is geared around creating a safer internet by empowering corporate teams and individuals to create unbreakable systems.”.

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‘AWS for blockchain’ Alchemy boosts valuation to $3.5B with $250M raise

TechCrunch

For the unacquainted, Web3 refers to a set of protocols led by blockchain, that intends to reinvent how the Internet is wired in the backend). Put simply, Alchemy wants to do for blockchain and Web3 what AWS (Amazon Web Services) did for the internet. ?? In June, the firm revealed its $2.2

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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

TechCrunch

And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. In 2017 and 2018, the company pivoted once again to focus on cryptocurrencies. From the day we founded the company three years ago we’ve focused on trying to build a new consumer finance company.

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