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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

The new regulations replace the 1995 EU Data Protection Directive and the 1998 UK Data Protection Act. Business accountability is a hallmark feature of the GDPR, and one aspect that ensures compliance from all companies operating within the EU in some fashion online. Companies Will Need To Prove They Are Protecting Data.

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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

And even though this time the displacement will involve intellectual labour, the pattern will remain unchanged, and it goes like this… Company replaces workers and reduces operating costs. Monopoly markets and IP protected innovations being rare exceptions). Reduce prices and sell more. Car prices are a good example.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

But this is just the kindthat tends to be open source: operating systems, programminglanguages, editors, and so on. But for every startup like that, there are twenty more that operate in niche markets or live quietly down in the infrastructure.So Before you consummate a startup, ask everyone about their previous IP history.

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Should You Get Rid of Your Website’s Lead Forms?

ConversionXL

Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). Even before someone enters an email address, some live chat solutions are able to use the IP addresses of anonymous visitors surface info like geographic location, what web browser and operating system someone’s using, and even what company someone works at.