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Q2 2015 DDoS Trends – The Fall Of Search Engine Impersonators

YoungUpstarts

According to Incapsula “threat landscape report” , search bot impersonation was detected in 60% of the DDoS attacks in 2014 but only in 1% of those in 2015! Google and Baidu impersonators bots – 2015 compared to 2014. Source: Q2 2015: Incapsula global DDoS threat landscape – Full report ).

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7 Lessons They Don’t Teach You In Crowdfunding School

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowdfunding is the hot new vehicle for raising money to support your entrepreneurial efforts, with over 1,250 website platforms around the world to help you, according to a 2015 industry report. Keep all IP details close to the vest. Don’t forget to account for the time and cost of crowdfunding campaigns.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

This is a model used in at least one case by China’s third-largest private equity firm, China Science & Merchants Investment Management Group ($12 billion+ AUM), which funded in 2015 CSC Upshot, a $400m seed fund through AngelList. Disclosure: I have a financial interest in Foundersuite , a ff Venture Capital portfolio company.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

In 2009, Google allowed publishers to cap FCF views at five articles per day ; in 2015, the cap tightened to three articles. Googlebot) accesses the content with a valid IP, however, it’s presented with the content in the HTML and has correct paywall structured data. For publishers, the policy didn’t work.

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Eastern European Champions & the 4 V’s of Big Data

Cracking the Code

The second category is composed of companies that have developed a unique IP locally and marketed it worldwide - typically in the gaming, software, security or mobile sectors. This category would include among others Yandex, Mail.ru, KupiVIP and Avito in Russia as well as Allegro in Poland. in GE, 1.3 in Brazil and 0.8

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Is Your Company Utilising The Bacs Payment System?

YoungUpstarts

The Bacs system uses a secure, internet-based service called Bacstel-IP to make payments between banks. In order to connect with Bacstel-IP and utilise its payment services, businesses must use a Bacs approved payment software. The Bacstel-IP system is protected with SSL encryption. How Does Bacs Software Benefit Businesses?

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10 Incredible Mobile Marketing Statistics Every Entrepreneur Must Know

Growthink Blog

And I was one of the early adapters of Voice Over IP. According to Yankee Group, global mobile payments (called m-payments) currently total approximately $240 billion and are expected to exceed $1 trillion by 2015. But for some technologies and/or new services, I have been more of a pioneer. So what does this mean to you?

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