TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Other commitments mention privacy, social inclusiveness, diversity and equity, fighting all sorts of discriminations and more. In other words, the Tech for Good Summit was created for photo opportunities (like the photo from 2018 below). In 2018, hundreds of organizations signed the Paris Call.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Not long ago, we were analyzing the trends unfolding in 2018 and in no time, we are talking about projections for the next year. So here’s a closer look at the lessons 2018 taught us and what we can expect from 2019. . The year 2018 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. I am not on leave.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. If that sounds familiar to some of the internet’s earliest users, that’s because it is.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2023

Not everyone believes that the metaverse — social, VR-centric worlds — has staying power. Founded in 2018, the startup initially focused on conversational AI, aiming to build cutting-edge, top-of-the-line voice recognition and speech synthesis tech. But MeetKai is among the steadfast optimists.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2023

Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) could change the internet forever. KOSA has been met with a flood of opposition from a variety of internet communities; detractors worry that the bill could restrict queer kids’ access to affirming online resources or make it easier for local governments to surveil abortion seekers.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

DECEMBER 28, 2018

Bayes Notes, Fake Internet, Tensorflow Privacy, Sortable UUIDs. Updating: A Set of Bayesian Notes -- Notes on Bayesian methods - written to supplement CS&SS/STAT 564: Bayesian Statistics for the Social Sciences. How Much of the Internet is Fake? (NY Continue reading Four short links: 28 December 2018.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In 2018, Carbon , a Nigerian fintech startup, made its financials public for the first time. There have been rare cases in the past, for instance, when Rocket Internet had to include Jumia’s financials in its yearly reports after going public. million in revenue for FY2019, up 68% from 2018. Image Credits: Carbon.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 22, 2021

In 2020, complaints of suspected internet crime surged by 61%, to 791,790, according to the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. While the company would not reveal hard revenue figures, President and CEO Marc Olesen said that business has tripled since he joined the company in June 2018.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

One Homeland Security official called it “another Tuesday on the internet,” but conceded there was still cause for concern in the election aftermath. Government officials and cybersecurity firms said there were no significant or damaging cyberattacks during Election Day. Image Credits: Malwarebytes.

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Kentik

JUNE 5, 2023

In the summer of 2022, I joined a team of BGP experts organized by the Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG) to draft a comprehensive report covering the security of the internet’s routing infrastructure. Below is an edited version of my take on the internet’s most notable BGP incidents.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2021

fold increase compared to its valuation in 2018, according to Mario Ciabarra, the founder and CEO of Quantum Metric. This is a significant up round for the startup, with 9.2-fold Now, the Series B is being led by Insight Partners with other backers undisclosed. Indeed, being remote is an asset. Our focus is on friction and frustration.”

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

.” De Gruchy — who has a fascinating history, having studied cage fighting and served as an army officer before pivoting to a quieter, white-collar career in due diligence analysis — founded Infogrid in 2018. “This trains our AI, which is then refined with user feedback, making it better.”

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Hu's Place - HitachiVantara

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Hitachi Vantara’s NEXT 2018 event for customers and partners concluded last week. We show cased over 50 discrete solutions in our showcase, made 9 unique announcements and revealed some of the work that we are doing in our Research labs and Centers for Social Innovation.

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Hacker Earth

MARCH 27, 2018

And surprisingly, the year 2018 looks to be no different. So here’s a closer look at the lessons 2017 taught us and what we can expect from 2018. . The year 2017 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. Social Recruiting’, a blanket term for finding talent through social media was coined in 2008.

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

For those who don’t keep up with teen app trends, both Sendit and NGL are leading anonymous Q&A apps, a subgroup of social apps currently popular among a younger demographic. 12 in Social Networking (Sendit) and No. Anonymous social NGL tops 15M installs, $2.4M Sendit’s apps are currently ranked at No.

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The Parallax

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

That’s because medical data can include financial information, home and work addresses, emails, Social Security or other national identification numbers, insurance information, medical diagnoses, and even personal images. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? Yes, your life-saving medical devices can be hacked. ”—Dr.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 27, 2021

In November 2018, TechCrunch reported that FedEx was working with a relatively new and unknown startup as it ramped up its efforts to electrify its fleet of delivery vans. Meanwhile, FedEx never got the 1,000 electric vans it expected from Chanje from that 2018 deal. Chanje (2015-2021). Image Credits: Chanje. Houseparty (2015-2021).

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 23, 2024

Even social media started with the promise of information triage: for each person, a unique feed of updates from only the friends they had chosen to follow. In the early idealistic days of internet expansion, the leading companies earned outsized profits by solving the attention allocation problem. The market was maturing.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They have also been urging states and municipalities to take steps to protect elections from foreign manipulation, including using education and awareness to mitigate the spread of election disinformation over social networks. ” — Susan Greenhalgh, s enior advisor for election security, Free Speech For People. .”

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The Parallax

MARCH 26, 2018

VANCOUVER—Of all the tactics hackers use to attack a target, the most common by far is the innocuous-sounding “social engineering.” Social engineering has become a big business for cybercriminals. READ MORE ON SOCIAL ENGINEERING. Why (and how) China is tying social-media behavior to credit scores. They’re being analyzed.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2022

Carry1st , a South African publisher of social games and interactive content across Africa, has raised a $20 million Series A extension led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z). Cordel Robbin-Coker , Lucy Hoffman and Tinotenda Mundangepfupfu founded Carry1st in 2018.

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Hacker Earth Developers Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Not long ago, we were analyzing the trends unfolding in 2018 and in no time, we are talking about projections for the next year. So here’s a closer look at the lessons 2018 taught us and what we can expect from 2019. . The year 2018 saw a rise in the use of Social Media in recruitment. I am not on leave.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

Carry1st was founded by Cordel Robbin-Coker , Lucy Hoffman and Tinotenda Mundangefupfu in 2018. Carry1st is one of the few companies to operate a hybrid model, but the endgame for the company really is to be one of the region’s dominant consumer internet companies. . Carry1st has $4M to invest in African mobile gaming.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It’s part of what early crypto adherents have labeled Web3 and describe as the internet owned by the builders and users and orchestrated with tokens. The efforts of Chou and company to decentralize its social token infrastructure is interesting on its own.

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Gorilla Logic

AUGUST 3, 2018

In July of 2018, I had the great opportunity to participate as a representative of Costa Rica at the Cybersecurity Summer Bootcamp in Leon, Spain. This is an activity made by The Spanish National Cybersecurity Institute, S.A. My team created a startup called Cybertico. The whole project is explained here and the app we suggested is here.

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The Parallax

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The 2018 midterm elections are over, mostly. READ MORE ON ELECTION HACKING IN 2018. States that don’t produce an auditable, verifiable paper trail of votes need focus on remedying that, he says, and those that use machines that can connect to the Internet and lack that auditable paper trail need to be replaced.

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Apiumhub

AUGUST 13, 2018

And now, in 2018, innovation in the technology industry is booming with AI , machine learning, advanced robotics, voice recognition , big data , etc. Licd is a commercial music licencing for social video. The post Hottest MusicTech startups of 2018 appeared first on Apiumhub. Primephonic. Amper Music.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Silversmith Capital Partners and returning investor PSG are leading the round: PSG, along with Greater Sum Ventures, led a leveraged buyout of the company in 2018. Unlike Formstack, which has found a very well-timed groove in the market, Formspring ultimately found it a struggle to grow amid the rapid rise of Facebook and others.

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The Parallax

APRIL 18, 2019

Russia began its Internet operations against the United States as early as 2014 (pages 19 through 22): More than two years before Trump was elected, Russia began to take steps to influence the 2016 election. “By government operatives pressured social-media companies to shut related accounts down, the GRU tapped WikiLeaks for help.

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Xicom

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Nowadays people are not just sitting at their home browsing on their desktop but they are going to any place with their mobiles or tablets and browsing the internet through mobile devices. It is also said that by 2021 over 80% of all the internet traffic is going to be dominated by video only.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Through all of the last year’s lockdowns, venue closures and other social distancing measures that governments have enacted and people have followed to slow the spread of COVID-19, shopping — and specifically e-commerce — has remained a consistent and hugely important service. market (with more capital in tow).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

He bought a majority stake in Portland-based Aviation Gin in 2018, which recently sold for $610 million. Moreover, he doesn’t exclusively promote his brands on social media, but weaves in his own funny personal commentary or gives followers a peek into his marriage with Blake Lively, which we can all agree is #relationshipgoals.

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The Parallax

OCTOBER 29, 2020

They have also been urging states and municipalities to take steps to protect elections from foreign manipulation, including using education and awareness to mitigate the spread of election disinformation over social networks.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 27, 2017

After spending much of his campaign blasting what he described (without proof) as a “rigged” election system, Trump spent much of his post-inauguration year denying reports of Russian election interference , which included alleged data breaches targeting his leading opponent , Hillary Clinton, social-media interference , and voting-machine hacking.

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The Parallax

MAY 31, 2019

Over the last few weeks, Google and Facebook, the giants of search, social media, and a laundry list of other services, made public declarations of dedication to defending their users’ privacy. During his speech at Google I/O in 2018, Pichai never uttered the word “privacy” ; this year, he wrote a column for The New York Times on the topic.

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Strategy Driven

JANUARY 10, 2018

As more consumers turn to the internet to shop, search and even socialize, ranking #1 on Google can put you in front of your competitors and increase conversions. While the internet proves far more competition than ever before, this ease of virtual accessibility can be both a dream and a curse.

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