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Smile Identity expands African footprint with acquisition of Appruve to strengthen ID verification services

TechCrunch

Smile Identity , a KYC compliance and ID verification partner for many African fintechs and businesses, has acquired Inclusive Innovations, the parent company of Appruve , a Ghanaian developer of identity verification software. We want to add that depth in more markets, and Appruve gives some of that.”

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South African payments gateway Ozow raises $48M Series B led by Tencent

TechCrunch

Unlike other African countries, South Africa also has a functioning credit system with the prevalent use of credit cards. And this is certainly due to the consumer and merchant education that we had to go through over the past seven years as it was quite an innovative solution that no one was really familiar with before.”.

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5 Obtrusive Blockers to Avoid as a Servant Leader

Perficient

The concept of “being a servant” to your teams and treating employees as critical individuals to be cultivated and empowered, has strong merit. This can help managers support their teams, clear the path, and improve productivity by stepping out of the way as much as possible. We’ve all heard of servant leadership.

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Patch Management Policy Features, Benefits and Best Practices

Kaseya

This vulnerability was disclosed in 2017 and found to be one of the most exploited by nation-state hackers. Patch management involves identifying, sourcing, testing, deploying and installing patches for all systems and applications in an organization. Teams, roles and responsibilities. What is a patch management policy?

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The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Here are some statistics from a few notable companies that have disclosed their success rates publicly: Microsoft declared that roughly one-third of their ideas yield negative results, one-third yield no results, and one-third yield positive results (Kohavi and Thomke, 2017). Complexity is an entire area of research within Systems Theory.

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Mistaking performance for competence

TechCrunch

In addition to running our robotics coverage, I also run TC’s hardware coverage overall, including all the consumer news and reviews. That involves due diligence, some research and choosing the stories we deem most relevant to our readers. It’s important to get out there and see as many of these systems in person as possible.

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What Is cloud security?

Lacework

Cloud computing’s first boom began in the 1960s when virtualization — a strategy for dividing system resources between multiple applications — and time-sharing were made popular by vendors like IBM. Ensuring that DevOps teams can work efficiently without sacrificing security is challenging. Scan for Misconfigurations.

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