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Kenyan startup Wowzi secures $3.2 million from 4DX Ventures, Andela co-founder to expand across Africa

TechCrunch

Kenyan startup Wowzi has secured new funding to expand the reach of its platform, which turns social media users into brand influencers, to West and Southern Africa — as it taps the increasing usage of social sites across the continent driven by the proliferation of smartphones and a deepening internet penetration.

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Emperia is helping brands like Bloomingdales build shopping experiences in VR

TechCrunch

On the other hand, a Deloitte survey from September found that just 5% of U.S. internet users were expected to shop in VR ahead of the 2022 holiday season. Despite competition from vendors like Obsess and ByondXR, Emperia has 45 customers across sectors including fashion, beauty, luxury apparel and sports.

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DataDome, which uses AI to protect against bot-based attacks, raises $42M

TechCrunch

According to a survey from Imperva, 42.3% of internet traffic in 2021 wasn’t human, but instead bots that ran automated routines with ill intent. Online businesses are at risk of bad bot activity, certainly more now than they used to be. So what makes DataDome different?

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What is digital transformation? A necessary disruption

CIO

Why digital transformation matters The arrival of the commercial internet in the late 20th century followed by high-speed bandwidth and mobile technologies in the first decade of the 21st century drove earlier waves of digitalization, as people started to shift from in-person, analog interactions to online transactions.

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Zededa lands a cash infusion to expand its edge device management software

TechCrunch

. “First, as more devices, people and locations were increasingly being connected, unprecedented amounts of data were being generated … Secondly, the sheer scale and diversity of what was happening at the edge would be impossible for organizations to manage in a per-use case fashion. ” Some research bears this out.

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How Important is the Internet to Enterprises Today?

Kentik

The main point I made that’s relevant to this blog post is that the Internet is a critical piece of the delivery path for digital business. Digital Business Brings Internet Reliance. While it might seem obvious by now, pretty much every business of any appreciable size today sees the Internet as important. Internet down?

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How To Make Money Online With No Or Little Money

Strategy Driven

Below are some ways you can legitimately earn online with little or no money: Participate In Online Surveys. Money earned doing online surveys can’t replace a full-time job’s income or provide you with instant financial freedom, but it can give a slight financial boost to pay small debts. Be A Virtual Assistant.

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