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Cryptocurrency company Circle to go public in SPAC deal

TechCrunch

Circle became a sort of Venmo clone with some blockchain technology under the hood. And one that makes money work the way the Internet works,” Circle co-founder and CEO Jeremy Allaire told TechCrunch’s Natasha Lomas in 2016. Created in 2013, the company originally wanted to create a mainstream bitcoin payment platform.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

It went live with its mobile and internet banking service in 2016 and launched an instant card issuance product in 2017. In 2020, the company launched services catered to end-to-end automation of lending operations for banks and blockchain switching. ” Image Credits: Appzone.

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Internxt gets $1M to be ‘the Coinbase of decentralized storage’

TechCrunch

Valencia-based startup Internxt has been quietly working on an ambitious plan to make decentralized cloud storage massively accessible to anyone with an Internet connection. Internxt is by no means the first to see key user value in rethinking core Internet architecture. Its long term mission to reinvent the Internet continues.

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Tech News Review 19 July 2016

CTOvision

By Steven Norton Jul 18, 2016 7:32 pm ET Artificial intelligence is approximating human reasoning more and more closely all the time. Solar Impulse And The Internet Of Things, Services, and People. Philadelphia’s ‘Smart City Challenge’ seeks ideas for Internet of Things. They are Big Data and Internet of … [Read More.].

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It's time to establish big data standards

O'Reilly Media - Data

Integration with other fast-growing technologies, such as AI and blockchain. For instance, JSON support and Table Valued predicates were added in the 2016 standard. Benchmarks. Security and governance. Metadata management. Deployment (including cloud / as a service options). The following sections will look at each area. Benchmarks.

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Different Career Opportunities for Experts in Coding in 2024 and Beyond

The Crazy Programmer

They guarantee that products that are developed for both computers and the internet are easy to use and attractive to the eye and are a fine balance between art and science. Since the adoption of artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things, coding is one of the skills that can offer security in career paths.

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Why current funding to secure U.S. elections ‘doesn’t cut it’ (Q&A)

The Parallax

She also compared election security to the current state of Internet-connected medical devices. Or, was the vote outcome in any race changed due to hacking or any cyberthreats in 2016? If the question is, were any systems penetrated? The answer is no. The answer is yes. So you don’t see that changing anytime soon? Not on my watch.