Brianne Kimmel is one of many operators striking out to raise their own funds.Brianne Kimmel; Ruobing Su/Business Insider This story requires our BI Prime membership.To read the full article, simply click here to claim your deal and get access to all exclusive Business Insider PRIME content.A new generation of tech investors are raising their own…
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RCMP release warning as Jasper residents targeted by scammers
Community » RCMP release warning as Jasper residents targeted by scammers RCMP release warning as Jasper residents targeted by scammers 12, 2020 In: Community , Crime , Feature , News | comment : 0 Jasper RCMP has released a warning after being notified of frauds and scams on Jasper residents over the past few weeks.…
Samsung and other smartphone makers need to focus on solving new problems, not old ones (opinion)
Mohanbir Sawhney is a professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Samsung just took the lead in the smartphone race with its newly unveiled Galaxy S20 line.Some of the features include 5G capability, enhanced zooming, a gargantuan 6.9-inch screen and four cameras — a clear…
The digital money revolution is already here, and banks and credit card companies have reason to be nervous
timer 3 min.read While Bitcoin is inarguably one of the most consequential computer science innovations in a generation, ushering in the blockchain revolution, it may be no more than a bit player in this new world of digital money and digital capital. It’s not because it has other competitors in homegrown cryptocurrencies.Rather, now that the…
Facebook dating app controversy disrupts Zuckerberg’s upcoming trip to woo Europeans | VentureBeat
Chris O’Brien @obrien February 13, 2020 5:30 AM Dozens of cardboard cutouts of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg are seen during an Avaaz.org protest outside the U.S.Capitol in Washington, D.C., April 10, 2018.Image Credit: REUTERS/Aaron P.Bernstein Facebook’s dating app controversy has thrown cold water on CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s upcoming European trip, which was aimed at rebuilding…
Prediction: A Cashless Society in 2030?
The world of cash has been under enormous pressure.A tense 2018 led to a tumultuous 2019: Facebook’s sudden announcement of plans to launch its Libra cryptocurrency with a consortium of companies caused consternation, uniting all regulators against the project.As the Cashless Society Working Party releases “A Cashless Society in 2019” , its author Sabrina Rochemont…
WhatsApp Reaches 2 Billion Active Users
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sees privacy-focused communications as the future of social networking , with messaging playing a key role – and WhatsApp, Facebook’s largest messaging platform, is central to that shift. And this week, the significance of WhatsApp has been underlined once again, with the messaging app reaching a new user milestone of 2…
Samsung and other smartphone makers need to focus on solving new problems, not old ones (opinion) – CNN
Mohanbir Sawhney is a professor at Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. Samsung just took the lead in the smartphone race with its newly unveiled Galaxy S20 line.Some of the features include 5G capability, enhanced zooming, a gargantuan 6.9-inch screen and four cameras — a clear…
When Corporations Violate Privacy, They Do Concrete Harm
When Corporations Violate Privacy, They Do Concrete Harm February 15, 2020 46 Views Lindsey Barrett , a staff attorney at Georgetown Law, does not hold back when she sees bad actors in the tech space.She recently vehemently opposed the Sprint-T-Mobile merger in Slate , warning that “further consolidating an already anti-competitive sector” would make “it…
PlanB Reasserts S2F Reliability as a Bitcoin Price Forecaster – Crypto Renegade
In his latest article, PlanB has re-affirmed the reliability of his Bitcoin-Stock-to-Flow model (S2F) to forecast the Bitcoin price trajectory.He also asserts that BTC markets are reasonably efficient, and they see risks that are not in the price data.PlanB: Markets Are reasonably efficient In his article of January 17, 2020, PlanB makes a case for…