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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. Web and computer information, such as location, IP address, cookie data and RFID tags. Although the GDPR applies to European countries, it doesn’t just apply to Europe-based companies. Data Breaches Must Be Formally Reported.

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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). Car prices are a good example. In the past 30 years due to automation prices have dropped radically.

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How To Predict The Future

Feld Thoughts

There seem to be two schools of thought on how to predict the future of information technology: looking at software or looking at hardware. We needed improvements in video compression and in TCP/IP – the underlying protocol that essentially runs the Internet. Smaller equals faster in processor technology.).

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Gaming is Eating the World

VC Cafe

Popular games like the Lineage IP, released by NCSoft in 1998, has generated over $4 Billion in revenue over its lifetime, most of it driven by its mobile version. New technology – games today are by default much more technological & data driven and thus more open to innovation.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

This is going to be BIG.

However, her take on the NYC innovation economy during her recent State of the City Address confirmed my thinking: Most of what the NYC government should be doing to support technology entrepreneurship in NYC is to try and stay out of the way. Either way the "one stop shop" model went out with portals in 1998. internet technology.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. The rulers of the technologybusiness tend to come from technology, not business. Its the same with technology.

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

ConversionXL

What happens when evolving customer preferences for certain technologies make lead capture forms obsolete? Let’s be clear: Messaging isn’t some new, hot trend or magical technology. Messenger (1998), and MSN/Windows Live Messenger (1999). A Shift in How We Communicate. The Rise of Messaging. It’s been around since the mid-1990s.