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Organization That Failed to Innovate – Avoid Their Fate

ReadWriteStart

Don’t get us wrong, Nokia was one of the first innovators in the cellular world, being the first to create a cellular network. Ironically, the founder of Netflix, Reed Hastings, made an offer to Blockbuster to buy out Netflix for $50 million in 2000. Let’s dive into these stories. What is your next innovation?

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Seven considerations to ensure your broadband is up to the task

NZ Entrepreneur

Hyperfibre offers speeds of 2000 Mbps, 4000 Mbps and 8000 Mbps. It could be worth getting a plan with high traffic class bandwidth so quality connectivity is assured. Do you need to segment your network for IT security and performance? A business fibre connection on the Chorus network is what can get you to the next level.

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Don’t Sleep on Lightning

Version One Ventures

– there have also been some major breakthroughs on Bitcoin’s native layer 2 scaling solution, the Lightning Network. Lightning is a network of bi-directional payment channels that allows for instant settlement between parties and routing of payments over a TOR-like p2p network settled in units of bitcoin.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks. It was difficult because we had limited bandwidth to send the bits through, and limited processing power to compress and decompress the video. The same spreadsheet also predicted we’d see a music downloading service in 1999 or 2000.

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15 Mobile Security Best Practices For SMBs (Or Anyone Else For That Matter)

YoungUpstarts

Ads are served from a third-party advertising server or network and sometimes they are truly malicious and can attack the device. Avoid auto-upload of photos to social networks. Images and videos require high bandwidth to transmit and use of this feature may put users over the limit on their data plan. formerly CA).

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Bubble Trouble? I Don’t Think So

Ben's Blog

In the great bubble of 1998-2000, the boom in public valuations mirrored the boom in private valuations. The inflation-adjusted data from the last bubble tells the story: In the 3-year period from 1998-2000, venture capital firms raised more than $200 billion, which represented about 0.55% of the national GDP. Much better.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

a leading Israeli provider of highly integrated network processors optimized for mobile backhaul, 3G and 4G wireless and wireline broadband networks. Wintegra, founded in 2000, has 165 employees with the majority of its R&D development team located in Ra’anana, Israel, and Austin, Texas.