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Grocery startup Mercato spilled years of data, but didn’t tell its customers

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A security lapse at online grocery delivery startup Mercato exposed tens of thousands of customer orders, TechCrunch has learned. A person with knowledge of the incident told TechCrunch that the incident happened in January after one of the company’s cloud storage buckets, hosted on Amazon’s cloud, was left open and unprotected.

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

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Jim Franklin: Sendgrid is a cloud-based email service. If you think of Pinterest, one of our customers, every time content is pinned or re-pinned, an email is generated to let users know that is happening. Sendgrid started in Summer of 2009 at TechStars in Boulder, and we've now grown dramatically to 100 employees and 60,000 customers.

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How Halla Is Using AI To Personalize Food, With Spencer Price

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At the end of the day, we help retailers make smarter recommendations to their customers, which leads to better business. Spencer Price: The customer experience with e-commerce has become less and less human, as algorithms on digital platform replace human interaction. The customer is really struggling to regain their lost humanity.

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Will Wearable Tech Ever Replace the Phone?

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Thanks to technology they can use IP camera hosting to have their systems all set up using cloud computing, and then activate them from their personal watches. But would customers necessarily want this? Expand this further, and cut the smart watch from the phone completely.