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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom

TechCrunch

The microfinancing platform connects investors with small businesses using mudarabah, a shariah-compliant profit-sharing agreement. the Blossom Finance team realized that the market there for Islamic finance was very small, said Martin. After initially soft-launching in the U.S.,

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: 6 Things That Matter Right Now

Tenable

That’s the bad news the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s Cyber Safety Review Board delivered in a recent report. Drive best practices for security hygiene, such as automated vulnerability management, asset inventorying and vulnerability mitigation, as well as secure software development practices.

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Business Plan 101 – Everything you Need to Know Before Jumping on the Business Bandwagon

Openxcell

A business plan is a well-written document that tells you how a business defines its objectives and would achieve its goals. It plays a crucial role in the success of any mobile app development company. The business plan lays out a written roadmap for the firm from marketing, operational, and financial standpoints.

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Daily Crunch: Revolut advises users to take caution after hacker breach triggers phishing campaign

TechCrunch

The TechCrunch team got so competitive in this season of the Great Tech Bake-off, cooking up an incredible amount of scrumptious news over the past 24 hours, that it has taken us damn near 24 hours just to ingest the full tasting menu. Nilos unifies crypto and fiat accounts for small businesses, Romain reports. R…R…Rewind!

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The Good and the Bad of the Elasticsearch Search and Analytics Engine

Altexsoft

To help her, Banon developed a search engine for her recipe collection. This endeavor would unwittingly plant the seeds for Elasticsearch, a technology that today drives data search and analytics for businesses around the globe. It is developed in Java and built upon the highly reputable Apache Lucene library.

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Urban Innovation Fund, VMG Catalyst among female-led firms raising new funds

TechCrunch

Prior to starting Urban Innovation Fund, Brenner was in commercial real estate development and met Lein, who was doing political polling and consulting, at business school at MIT. Urban Innovation Fund is a 100% woman-owned firm and 77% of the companies it backs have had a woman or a person of color on the founding team.

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The Big Picture of Business: Leadership for the New Order of Business Part 2

Strategy Driven

The Business Tree™ has 7 major parts… 5 primary branches, a trunk (6) and the base (7): The business you’re in. Running the business. Business development. No single branch (business component) constitutes a healthy tree. Value-added leadership requires a senior team commitment.