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Why Friday’s Massive DDoS Attack Should Be Terrifying

Xconomy

Friday’s attack affected Netflix, Twitter, Spotify, AWS, Airbnb, Reddit, GitHub and many more companies at once. DNS is a shared resource that almost all companies outsource, which means someone could cripple internet usage worldwide by targeting a relatively small number of companies. .” — Bruce Schneier.

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Small Business Marketing | Get Customers versus Get Leads

Tech Zulu Event

It’s a Netflix for business cards and receipts. As a last resort I outsourced and actually hired someone in India to remotely log into my computer during the night and correct all the errors from the scanned cards, which my in house team had processed earlier in the day. Blogs and Forums. Perfect example; ShoeBoxed.com.

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Saxena: More Than a Tool, A.I. Must Be Used With Society in Mind

Xconomy

He’s one of the founding members of AI Global , an initiative with the goal of promoting responsible development and deployment of A.I. But he’s also aware that the technology, if not used carefully, could end up hurting society. technologies. As part of Xconomy’s series of year-end posts , we asked.

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Pour And Stir II – Managing Your Cost Per Customer

InfoChachkie

For instance, if a user registers for a firewall, subsequent offers for anti-spam or anti-spyware solutions will generally fare better than random solicitations for Netflix, Geico or the secret to whiter teeth. For instance, it does not make sense to develop an Affiliate Market presence until you have established an effective SEM campaign.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

About Frank Addante > (from the Silicon Valley Business Journal) Twitter Updates follow me on Twitter Blog Archive ► 2010 (2) ► June (1) Part II: Optimized for Profitability ► February (1) Get Out of the Office! Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? ► October (1) New Video! .

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Developments Blog. Gramercy Park Condo Goes Into Contract. In March of last year, Matt Jacobson, head of market development at Facebook, paid $10.9 The arrival of techies has also had a profound effect on the rental market, brokers and real-estate developers say. Loading… Real Estate. » More.