The Parallax

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Did you get hacked in 2017? In a time when metadata is used by governments to kill their adversaries , and Internet service providers are allowed to sell their customers’ Internet usage to the highest bidder, a good virtual private network goes a long way towards hiding your traffic from surveillance of all kinds.

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The Parallax

MAY 9, 2018

It’s just one example of how “Internet of Things” connected devices, from personal assistants like Google Home and Amazon Echo , to smart locks like August and Ring , can seemingly give your home powerful technological upgrades. Internet-connected home devices appear to be at the beginning stages of a massive upward adoption rate.

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The Parallax

MARCH 20, 2018

In a newly released Symantec study he led, Grange says the hacker group is now using hijacked Wi-Fi routers, Internet of Things devices, and cloud services to cover its tracks. READ MORE ON ROUTERS AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? The long reach of Mirai, the Internet of Things botnet.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

Its founders are former Rocket Internet executives who say that their main competition aren’t spaces like WeWork or other hot desk booking apps. Deskimo was launched in February by Raphael Cohen, Rocket Internet’s former head of Asia, and Christian Mischler, who co-founded Foodpanda and served as its global chief operating officer.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

As going to stores became more risky over time, many shoppers turned to buying more goods from the Internet, bolstering ecommerce players like Shopify, BigCommerce, as well as companies that facilitate online payments, like Square and PayPal. From 2017 to 2018, for example, when Wish saw revenues of $1.10 billion and $1.73

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The Parallax

JUNE 13, 2018

And although organizations can do certain things to mitigate the impact of an attack, our seemingly ever-increasing usage of Internet-connected devices is likely only inviting more DDoS trouble. DDoS attacks have been around since the Stone Age of the Internet: The first recorded denial-of-service attack dates back to 1974.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Today, the startup, founded in 2017, announced it has raised $11 million in Series A funding, led by AC Ventures (ACV) with participation from Coinbase Ventures and Skystar Capital. In 2017 and 2018, crypto was not this big but we saw a huge opportunity there.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It was way back in 2017 that the company that became Ultraleap (Ultrahaptics, as was) demonstrated at TechCrunch Disrupt a technology that pioneered ultrasound to replicate the sense of touch. Like the internet, it is a reality we will interact with, in all parts of life: at home, in the office, in cars, or out in public.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 5, 2022

The number of POS terminals in Nigeria grew from 150,000 in 2017 to 543,000 in April 2021, according to Statista. One of the biggest challenges to the mass adoption of card payments at retail locations is the rate of transaction failures due to poor internet connection.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2021

Funds II and III closed in 2014 and 2017, raising $135 million and $200 million, respectively. Also, Connecticut-based Wesleyan University is an LP with Chief Investment Officer Anne Martin describing the founding team as “internet pioneers.”. Kaszek founded its first fund in 2011, raising $95 million, an impressive sum at that time.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Another interesting library comes from Alibaba, the Chinese conglomerate specializing in e-commerce, retail, Internet, AI and technology. To see how much has changed during the last year, we took a look at 2017 top 20 Java libraries and searched for them in our current list. Last Year Winners: Where Are They Now?

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

The Cassie robot captured the internet’s imagination ( ours included ) when it debuted in 2017 through a series of Oregon State University YouTube videos. We were surfing the internet like any good venture capital group, and we ran across the video that Agility released,” says Leak. “We From lab to launch.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firework has now taken in more than $235 million in funding since it was founded in 2017 by co-founders Vincent Yang and Jerry Luk. “We We have big ambitions at Firework — to become the infrastructure on which the next-generation of the internet is built and run — and Softbank Investment Advisers supports that vision.”.

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The Parallax

JUNE 26, 2018

And establishing protocols for health care requires evaluating Internet-connected medical programs’ “unique” needs—and how they impact “human life.”. According to a 2017 study , a CERT’s performance in responding to an immediate threat largely depends on how well the team communicates.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

billion internet of things (IoT) devices in use. “The visibility gap and the resulting risk was greatest for those unmanaged IoT, internet of medical things, and operational technology devices that could not be secured like traditional IT infrastructure.” In 2015, there were approximately 3.5 hospitals today. .

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But a chance encounter encouraged them to pivot in 2017 to become Benivo , a B2B SaaS HR platform solution for mobile or moving workforces. Despite presenting Google with the ugliest page in the history of internet pages (which was our not-even-MVP product then), they cared about their employees and really wanted to solve a problem.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 7, 2023

After a day full of righteous online backlash, Prosecraft creator Benji Smith took down the website, which had existed since 2017. But tools like ChatGPT are basically trained on the sum total of the internet, so this means that real travel writers or children’s books authors could be getting inadvertently plagiarized.

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TechCrunch

JULY 19, 2021

We’re thrilled to have Gharegozlou joining us at Disrupt this September 21-23 , to discuss the future of NFTs, crypto gaming and the decentralized internet. NBA Top Shot was an industry anomaly, but it wasn’t even Dapper’s first industry-shaking hit.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2022

Greenlabs, founded in 2017 by Scott Sungwoo Choi, Shin and Luke Donghyun Ahn, wants to digitize the entire value chain of agriculture space from crop production to distribution with a mission to address the global food supply problem in a sustainable way. It also built smart farming software and hardware for farmers.

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CTOvision

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Read Chris Stewart explain why the Internet of Things potential has not been realized yet on IoT for All : Gartner predicted in 2017 that there will be 20 billion connected things online by 2020. Since that prediction, the adoption of IoT technology has met and surpassed the predictor’s expectations.

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The Parallax

MAY 21, 2019

As the Internet of Things continues to balloon , Internet-connected video cameras have become the driving force behind the growth of the video camera marketplace. Research and strategy company Global Market Insights estimates that the industry will reach $20 billion by 2024, an estimated bump of more than 20 percent from 2017.

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The Parallax

MAY 21, 2019

As the Internet of Things continues to balloon , Internet-connected video cameras have become the driving force behind the growth of the video camera marketplace. Research and strategy company Global Market Insights estimates that the industry will reach $20 billion by 2024, an estimated bump of more than 20 percent from 2017.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

But d espite its fast adoption rate and large fintech appetite, merchants cannot still receive payments from other countries on the platform with various sources alluding PayPal’s decision to the country’s history with internet fraud. In 2017, Africa generated $16.5

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The Parallax

JULY 2, 2019

Consumers face security and privacy risks from smart TVs, they say, just like any other device connected to the Internet. READ MORE ON SECURING THE INTERNET OF THINGS. Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? Actual security experts say Samsung’s tweet was a bit alarmist. Caveat emptor.). Even the top U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2021

South African consumer internet giant Naspers led the round through its investment arm, Naspers Foundry , investing $5.6 For Aerobotics, it raised $600,000 from 4Di Capital and Savannah Fund as part of its seed round in September 2017. million, according to Aerobotics.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

To wit, after Lane talked with him about his endeavors in Baltimore, as well as having bigger ambitions to create an “internet of healthcare,” Kvamme persuaded Lane to abandon his various projects, relocate to Columbus and focus entirely on a newer, better CrossChx.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

Tiger Global’s earliest portfolio investments on the continent were in consumer internet companies. Back then, a lot of people were not on the internet, so it was really about consumer services to get people on the internet,” said Opeyemi Awoyemi , whose company, Jobberman, received $1 million from Tiger Global.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

Cent was founded in 2017 as an ad-free creator network that allows users to offer each other crypto rewards for good posts and comments — it’s like gifting awards on Reddit, but with Ethereum. In addition to independent distribution lists, Hejazi wants to move away from the ad-supported internet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Chinese internet giant Tencent led the round, with other investors Endeavor Catalyst and Endeavor Harvest Fund participating. The company allows consumers to access their internet banking platform when they make transactions online. “And From 2016 to 2017, Ozow raised a combined $1.2 million from backers such as Kalon Ventures.

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The Parallax

DECEMBER 8, 2017

And in newer models, it likely connects to the Internet too. Car manufacturers are doing more than they used to, but still not enough, says Stefan Savage , a 2017 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” grant recipient and a professor at University of California at San Diego who specializes in car hacking. READ MORE ON THE INTERNET OF THINGS.

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The Parallax

JANUARY 24, 2019

FBI’s router reboot call reminds us why to check for updates Your old router could be a hacking group’s APT pawn Why hackers love your Wi-Fi (and how to protect it) How to secure your home Wi-Fi Time for a Department of the Internet of Things? The long reach of Mirai, the Internet of Things botnet. This is effectively an iceberg.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

While a world of internet users skeptically grapples with the rise of multi-million dollar JPGs and crypto exchanges bankrolling celebrity-packed Super Bowl spots, a network of blockchain startups are trying to build friendlier onramps for those consumers into their vision of the crypto internet. billion valuation.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

million since it launched in 2017. Microsoft, Apple and AWS are three of the most valuable companies in the world because they are the developer platform powering the computer and internet industries, Alchemy is primed to do the same for the blockchain,” he said. The company previously raised a total of $15.5 While in Web 2.0,

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2017, Delahunt was at Ralph Lauren and had her first look at the blockchain, but it wasn’t until years later while working to pioneer some digital wardrobe projects with companies, like Snap, Bitmoji and Roblox, that she had an opportunity to see that web3 was going to be “more than a niche community” for luxury fashion.

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The Parallax

AUGUST 2, 2018

As with any VPN (including that of Avast, which sponsors The Parallax ), Verizon’s new app works by rerouting your Internet traffic to appear to come from another Internet Protocol address. Unlike some other VPNs, including Private Internet Access and NordVPN , it doesn’t work across multiple devices or platforms.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 10, 2021

Before launching Goodwater, co-founder Eric Kim was managing director at Maverick, an early investor in Coupang, and served on the company’s board from 2011 to 2017. “But more surprising is that as early as 2017, Coupang’s performance already started to exceed Amazon, with year 3 dollar retention of 346% with Amazon at 278%.

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The Parallax

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Based on surveys of more than 40,000 Internet users in North America and Europe, Chrome will now block several kinds of ads without requiring user interaction or customization with an ad blocker. These include prestitial ads , which are full-page ads that prevent consumers from seeing a site’s content, and flashing animated ads.

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