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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. This is due to businesses adhering to the General Data Protection Regulation standards. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

I’m a huge fan of William and his writing as you can see from my review of his book Avogadro Corp. There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. A big technical challenge we studied was piping streaming video over networks.

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The Economics of Automation & You

Start Up Blog

Competitors respond and also reduce price to maintain market share either by adopting similar technology or cutting margins. Monopoly markets and IP protected innovations being rare exceptions). In the past 30 years due to automation prices have dropped radically. Car prices are a good example.

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