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An Exercise Program for the Fat Web

Coding Horror

That's like the most effective exercise program ever! Eye/o GmbH owns AdBlock and uBlock , employs 150 people, and in 2016 they had 50 million euros in revenue, of which about 50% was profit. Google's paid "Acceptable Ads" program is a way to funnel money into adblockers to, uh, encourage them to display certain ads.

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Station F adds an online program to educate the next generation of entrepreneurs

TechCrunch

With this new program, entrepreneurs from anywhere can get started and learn all the basics to start a company. Right now, around 9% of entrepreneurs applying to a Station F program get accepted. It’s a fully online program, which means you can access it from anywhere in the world,” Varza said.

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With Kard, banks and fintechs can build custom credit card rewards programs

TechCrunch

But for young fintech companies newer to card issuance, setting up an attractive rewards program from scratch can be onerous, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration case-by-case. To that end, he hopes to triple the size of Kard’s 25-person team by the end of the year.

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Tencent leads $100M Series B funding round into China-based esport provider VSPN

TechCrunch

Further confirmation that the esports market is booming amid the pandemic comes today with the news that esports “total solutions provider” VSPN (Versus Programming Network) has raised what it describes as “close to” $100 million in a Series B funding round, led by Tencent Holdings.

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Even North Korea has an antivirus program—but it’s used for spying

The Parallax

They also discovered that it was programmed to ignore a malware programming characteristic that even decade-old Trend Micro code would have flagged as malicious. And Pyongyang may well fear that smuggled foreign media is “an attack vector on their network.”.

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Fintech startup Power flexes its credit card muscle following $316M equity, debt injection

TechCrunch

Prior to Acorns, Fernando was founder and CEO at Vault, which was acquired by Acorns and was a Disrupt Battlefield company in 2016. Though Fernando would not go into specifics about revenue or customers, he did say that the majority of customers Power is working with currently have never offered a credit card program before.

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NASA’s Thomas Zurbuchen tackles cosmic questions at TC Sessions: Space

TechCrunch

He also oversees NASA’s science program with a total budget approaching $7 billion a year. Zurbuchen is responsible for NASA’s science program, which includes earth science, heliophysics, planetary science and astrophysics. The program is helping to answer some of humanity’s biggest origin questions.