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Surviving Chargeback Fraud — How to Keep Your Business Safe

Up and Running

It’s been a challenging year, and small businesses face different difficulties, from having to shut due to Covid-19 to the struggles of securing Government loans to stay afloat. BIN database. IP intelligence. They can feel like a strangling noose around the bottom line and profit margins of business merchants.

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Has Blockchain Fever Died Down In 2018?

YoungUpstarts

” According to the authors, just like TCP/IP was adopted massively so as to optimize processes in all industries, so will blockchain technology. The process of adoption will be gradual and steady, not sudden, as waves of technological and institutional change gain momentum.”

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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. The United States Federal Government makes use of it.

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Why Your Employees Are Your Company’s Number One Cybersecurity Threat  

YoungUpstarts

If a work email is compromised, then all of your company’s database is at risk. From large corporations to government agencies, VPN technology is often used to provide remote and secure access to the networks of an organization. Business VPNs will provide your company with a dedicated server and IP address.

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Should You Patent Your Idea?

Up and Running

A patent is a legal right granted by a particular government. There are multiple free patent databases like Google Patents Search, Espacenet, and WIPO that can help you in the pursuit. Below is a list of patent search databases along with some other free resources: Google Patents Search. What is a patent? Patentscope.

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Should You Really Reduce Form Fields?

ConversionXL

After analyzing the Unbounce database, Oli Gardner found the following… If you have only one to three fields, you’re likely going to see a higher conversion rate. If you’re filling out a government form or a form to have the value of your house estimated, you’re expecting to answer a lot of questions. IP address)?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. It required a diffusion of personal computers that led to the massive growth of Hewlett Packard, Intel, Apple Computers and others.