CIO

MARCH 4, 2025

Adversaries are pre-positioning themselves within critical networks, supported by a broader ecosystem that includes shared tooling, training pipelines, and sophisticated malware development. These networks are similar to botnets, but are primarily used as proxies, and are often administered by independent contractors that are based in China.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

This is called social proof, which is a physiological effect that influences your decisions every day, whether you know it or not. We’ve found that effectively using social proof can lead to up to 400% improvement in conversion. How businesses use social proof. Social proof for B2B. Social proof for SaaS.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2022

Gamification and social hooks have become cornerstones across every category of consumer apps these days, and today one that’s using these to build out a new e-commerce platform in Europe is announcing a seed round to give its growth a boost. Translating that to today’s internet landscape in regions like Europe and the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

Indonesian social commerce app KitaBeli’s team, including founders Prateek Chaturvedi (seated, right front row and Ivana Medea Tjandra (center front row). KitaBeli , an Indonesian social commerce app for group buying, announced today it has raised a $10 million Series A.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

But today comes news of funding for a startup building a social network for what is probably one of the least digital business sectors of all: independent, small-hold farmers in the developing world. million users. To date, London-based Wefarm has primarily found traction in countries in East Africa. million members.

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The Crazy Programmer

JULY 18, 2021

Modern-day internet users need to ensure they are protected, and companies should also set cybersecurity protocols to help keep their systems secure from threats. The majority of cyber-attacks actually use phishing or social engineering, where users are tricked into revealing personal information.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2020

We want to work on having more click trust and less clickbait on the internet,” he said. Finally, as we navigate the internet in 2020, the privacy question looms large as is how you balance the convenience-privacy trade-off. He acknowledges that trust and accuracy elements could get tricky as social networks have found out.

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The Parallax

JUNE 26, 2020

But one oft-used government tactic in some countries to limit the ability of their citizens to communicate and organize has been absent so far: There have been virtually no reports of state-mandated Internet shutdowns in response to the protest. READ MORE ON GOVERNMENT INTERNET INTERFERENCE. While one of the few instances of a U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2022

Yandex, best known as an internet company from the country, is having its own issues. And speaking of Porsche : The company is going build out its own network of electric charging points. Following TechCrunch reporting that Yandex was looking to divest certain assets, it appears that Yandex News is among those under the hammer.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 7, 2021

The Indian social network said it has raised $502 million in a new financing round — Series E — led by Tiger Global that valued ShareChat at $2.1 Social commerce Meesho turned a unicorn on Monday , fintech firm CRED on Tuesday and e-pharmacy firm PharmEasy and Groww on Thursday.

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Ooda Loop

AUGUST 23, 2024

Built on the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP) developed by Project Liberty Labs, Frequency gives people control of their own data, privacy, and safety. Together with MeWe, a privacy-first social media platform, they’re building a new internet that empowers users and gives them ownership over their digital identities.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 26, 2021

The Indian government’s move to remove a number of social media posts critical of its handling of COVID-19 was the key news item this weekend. As the country’s healthcare system buckles, and deaths spike, the move by the current administration to censor the Internet was just about as bad a look you could imagine.

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Palo Alto Networks

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

According to the Unit 42 Incident Response Report , 38% of breaches exploited these flaws last year, dethroning phishing and social engineering as the top attack vector for the previous two years. Organizations must get their arms around their internet-facing attack surface, which is more easily said than done.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Notion, the online workspace startup that was last year valued at over $2 billion , is currently offline after a DNS outage knocked the site off the internet. ” Domain name servers, or DNS, is an important part of how the internet works. Facebook Oversight Board says other social networks ‘welcome to join’ if project succeeds.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Discord’s doubling in corporate value comes as the persistent, inept, American response to the COVID-19 pandemic continues to accelerate the adoption and growth of businesses creating virtual social networking opportunities. If that sounds familiar to some of the internet’s earliest users, that’s because it is.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Houseparty, the social video chat app acquired by Fortnite maker Epic Games for a reported $35 million back in 2019, is shutting down. At the time, these integrations appeared to be the end goal that explained why Epic Games had bought the social startup in the first place. — sima sistani (@SimaSistani) September 9, 2021.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2021

ShareChat, an Indian social network that added Twitter as an investor in 2019 , may soon receive the backing of two more American firms. Twitter-backed Indian social network ShareChat raises $40 million. ShareChat, Google and Snap did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Twitter’s new CEO and owner Elon Musk is rattling the cage at his social network and ruffling a lot of feathers both inside and outside of the company. “We’ve had 15-20 years of content moderation experience on the internet now, and so let’s build that in.”

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 15, 2020

River is meant to rethink the way we consume content across the internet. The app pulls stories and content from across the entire internet, including from publishers, Twitter and other social media, etc. adults get their news either “often” or “sometimes” from social media.

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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. “There’s already value in what we post on social media. . ” A screenshot of Cent’s social platform. .

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Kentik

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Every year the internet experiences numerous disruptions and outages, and 2021 was certainly no exception. This year we documented outages, including multiple government-directed shutdowns, as well as what might be the internet’s biggest outage in history. Famous internet outages. Uganda election shutdown.

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TechCrunch

JULY 30, 2021

I learned about Yat in April, when a friend sent our group chat a link to a story about how the key emoji sold as an “internet identity” for $425,000. Like any URL on the internet, Yats can redirect to another website, or they can function like a more eye-catching Linktree. “I hate the universe,” she texted.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

It’s also the lifeline that Automattic needs this decade to rebuild the internet in an open direction. The strategy here is simple: Continue opening up larger swaths of the internet to open-source innovation outside of the walled-garden platforms developed by Amazon and Facebook. billion with a share buyback a few months ago.

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The Crazy Programmer

AUGUST 5, 2024

Network security must be at the top priority due to the reports of devastating breaches that make headlines and make their way to boardroom conversations. Thus, having network security protections becomes quite important to stave off these threats. In today’s post, we are going to explore six ways how to improve network security.

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The Crazy Programmer

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Interconnection of Computer Networks. In fixing inter-organizational relationships, networks must be interconnected. A parallel machine interconnection network sends information to every desired destination node from every source node. The Freenet network offers an efficient way to store and retrieve anonymous information.

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CableLabs

APRIL 15, 2020

As most of the world is now under stay-at-home orders and social isolation guidelines, this makes the internet more popular than ever. While we all do our part to work and learn from home, you may be wondering if the internet can handle this much traffic? Fortunately, the answer is a resounding YES !

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Kentik

APRIL 10, 2023

In the past year, we have used Kentik’s unique datasets to show some of the conflict’s impacts on Ukraine’s external internet connectivity, ranging from DDoS attacks and large outages , to the rerouting of internet service in the southern region of Kherson. 88.81.224.209 PJSC Datagroup 3326 88.81.224.209.ipv4.datagroup.ua. 193.109.128.78

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

For this generation, social media has generated a vast set of new ethical challenges, which is unsurprising when you consider the degree of its influence. Social media has been linked to health risks in individuals and political violence in societies.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Most people have experienced the internet only through Web 2.0: online applications, the social web and software as a service form the fabric of our lives. Lately, many have championed web3 as the internet’s next phase, but the term encompasses so much territory, conversations can be rather diffuse. .”

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Perficient

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Phishing-as-a-Service Phishing-as-a-Service (PhaaS) platforms offer ready-made phishing kits, targeting email, social media, or other communication channels. DDoS-as-a-Service Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS)-as-a-Service allows individuals to hire attackers who overload a target’s network, effectively shutting down websites or services.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2021

Tencent is in advanced stages of talks to lead an investment round in Gurgaon-headquartered Pocket FM, the latest in the Chinese giant’s push to broaden its consumer internet portfolio in the Indian market. Indian social network ShareChat, for instance, launched a Clubhouse-like feature earlier this year.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2022

Web3 is seen as the future of the internet because it allows people to control their own data and digital assets, but crypto developers have been learning from the past when it comes to onboarding new users. workflows on nearly every traditional internet platform. The company also plans to increase its headcount, Young told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2021

A lot of social audio can still be very noisy, though, and Anyone wants to be anything but. And, well, on the Internet anyone can claim to be an expert — but of course you can’t rely on the quality of the ‘advice’ you find freely floating around online.). This is short-form, topic-specific audio.

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

Firecell: Helps enterprises build private 4G/5G networks. GiveShop: A matchmaking platform to connect companies that want to give with social impact projects that need money. Ntapi: An edtech platform for Africa, built to feel more like a social network than a traditional upskilling platform.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

There are many startups working on decentralized identities for the next generation of the internet. ” Similar to.eth,bit has been gradually gaining recognition among crypto adopters on some established internet platforms. “They are treating.bit as a form of social cachet,” said Yeoh.

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The Crazy Programmer

AUGUST 25, 2020

For a long time, exchanging information between two people in different locations has always been central to support relationships in social and business environments. Methods of communication have grown rapidly supported by the extensive development of technology and the spread of the internet. A Stable, Internet-based Connection.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

Trust wants to give smaller businesses the same advantages that large enterprises have when marketing on digital and social media platforms. In addition to the funding round, Trust announced a strategic partnership with social shopping e-commerce platform Verishop. Is the internet advertising economy about to implode?

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