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Is India’s BNPL 2.0 set to disrupt B2B?

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B2B commerce in India is moving online. Skyrocketing smartphone and internet penetration led to rapid growth in e-commerce across large cities and smaller towns alike. India’s B2B e-commerce space has developed rapidly since 2020. E-commerce has seen tremendous growth in India over the past decade. Image Credits: Redseer.

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Billie, a buy now, pay later specialist for the B2B market, raises $100M on a $640M valuation

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Now a Berlin-based startup called Billie that has built a similar service — but specifically targeting B2B transactions — is seeing a lift of its own boat from that rising tide. . A logical question might be why B2C giants in the BNPL space are not doing more B2B business directly. but that will work out to $1.7

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VCs are entering 2024 with ‘healthy paranoia’

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Today on Equity, we're joined by Deepka Rana, a London-based Principal at Northzone focused on early-stage companies across consumer internet and B2B SaaS. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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How to expose events to third parties on the public internet

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Server-Sent Events are a great way to expose events to trusted third parties over the public internet. In this blog we will explore five ways to expose your existing messaging middleware to the internet: direct, polling, websockets, webhooks and server-sent events. Direct connection. in many regards: design, setup & documentation.

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How Zero Trust is supposed to look

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Zero trust for users Your users need fast, secure, and reliable access to applications and the internet from anywhere and everywhere. Much like users, they need to be granted secure access to both applications and the internet. Zero trust for IoT and OT “Internet of things” and “operational technology” are not just buzzwords.

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Ample’s John de Souza on the merits of B2B, company culture and investors who get it

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Since then, he has founded multiple companies, including fintech company Smartleaf, internet startup Flash Communications and consumer health platform MedHelp, where his current co-founder, Khaled Hassounah, served as CTO. Depending on COVID-19 border restrictions, Ample is also targeting late next year to start building stations in Japan.

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The 4 pillars of the Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange: Customers share their successes

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The Zscaler Zero Trust Exchange provides a holistic approach to securing users, workloads, IoT/OT devices, and B2B partners. Pillar 3: Zero Trust connectivity Traditionally, organizations backhauled traffic destined for cloud applications or the internet to on-premises data centers.

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