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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

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Chinese cyber espionage growing across all industry sectors

CIO

A sign of Chinas maturing cyber capabilities CrowdStrike attributes Chinas increasingly dominant position in global cyber espionage to a decade of strategic investments, following General Secretary Xi Jinpings 2014 call for the country to become a cyber power.

Industry 147
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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing

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Image Credits: Sesamm Founded out of Paris in 2014, Sesamm has amassed a fairly impressive roster of clients from across the financial realm specifically, including U.S. Companies can access Sesamm’s flagship product, TextReveal , via several conduits, including an API that brings Sesamm’s NLP engine into their own systems.

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FlexID gets Algorand funding to offer self-sovereign IDs to Africa’s unbanked

TechCrunch

One of the startups working toward this vision is Zimbabwe’s FlexID, which is building a blockchain-based identity system for those excluded from the banking system due to their lack of identity documents. In Zimbabwe, for instance, only 30% of the adult population had access to any financial services as of 2014.

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Remembering the startups we lost in 2020

TechCrunch

Atrium, a 100-person legal tech startup founded by Justin Kan, shut down in March after failing to find an efficient way to replace the arduous systems of law firms. Ultimately, Atrium’s failure shows how difficult and unprofitable it could be to disrupt a traditional and complicated system. Mixer/Beam Interactive (2014-2020).

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Ghanaian fintech Dash raises $32.8M seed to build connected wallets for Africans

TechCrunch

But here’s the challenge: While both systems tend to work well when users make transactions within their unique environment, there’s no interoperability for transactions between them. I was blown away by the ubiquity and convenience of mobile money in 2014 when I visited Kenya for the first time.

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How AerCap’s CIO has been a catalyst for a robust M&A strategy

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You have to make decisions on your systems as early as possible, and not go down the route of paralysis by analysis, he says. The company had completed a first acquisition (International Lease Finance Corporation in 2014) and was relocating its headquarters from Schiphol in the Netherlands to Dublin, Ireland. Thats not the case in AI.

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