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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. As a result, their databases are a veritable hacker honeypot, with hackers able to utilize and sell the information. They are highly detrimental to FinTechs because many APIs lack rate limiters.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Demandbase cross-references its database to find companies that are a good fit. For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology. Image source ).

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Should You Patent Your Idea?

Up and Running

There are a lot of patent applications for mathematical algorithms that get rejected during the patent examining phase or maybe later in court proceedings. There are multiple free patent databases like Google Patents Search, Espacenet, and WIPO that can help you in the pursuit. Google patents search is a free patent database.

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30 Machine Intelligence Startups to Watch in Israel

VC Cafe

This is done by enriching transaction data points such as name, email address, and billing and shipping address with around 2,000 extra data points, such as an IP latency check to measure the real distance from the user, IP connection type, distance between key strokes, and email name match.

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Benchmarking Cassandra Scalability on AWS - Over a million writes per second

techblog.netflix.com

If a node fails, its replacement has a different IP address, but we want it to have the same token, and the original Cassandra replacement mechanisms had to be extended to handle this case cleanly. instance is half the available filesystem space, because Cassandras current compaction algorithm needs space to compact into. database. (1).

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

New technology is allowing for computer vision techniques to the image retrieval problem, that is, the problem of searching for digital images in large databases. Historically, searches for online images have been accomplished by searching for the meta-data associated with the image – the tags and words used to describe the picture.

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Innovative Technology and Design Prototypes from Israel’s miLAB

VC Cafe

in Computer Science from Tel Aviv University, run the lab, mentors and advisors including: Meir Brand (head of Google Israel), Eden Shochat (partner at Genesis and founder of Face.com), Yair Goldfinger (entrepreneur and angel investor) and additional experts in user experience, through industrial design, algorithms, mobile technologies and more.

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