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FLoC: Google’s Plan to Kill Off Third-Party Cookies

ConversionXL

The technological breakthrough, announced in 2017 , is the “federated” component—the ability to train a machine learning model without a centralized repository of data: It works like this: your device downloads the current model, improves it by learning from data on your phone, and then summarizes the changes as a small focused update.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. We never seek any rights to give Amex preferential treatment at the time of a potential acquisition. It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days.

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Winners and Losers in the Coming Crowdfunding World

Growthink Blog

To envision this, visit (or revisit) Kickstarter.com, and browse through the incredible diversity of cause and passion - based projects, from charitable to design to artistic to technological, crowd funded on a donations basis on the site. Well, for starters the very unfortunate “derivatives-focus” of the U.S.