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The impact of social media on cryptocurrency prices and market trends

Transformify

The pricing and movements of cryptocurrencies are influenced by many different variables, but social media has grown to be a significant player in these marketplaces. We will look at how social media affects cryptocurrency pricing and market movements in this post.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. Russia has evolved in a different direction, with tight information controls and state-run media. And will society demand to have more of the algorithmic black box that feeds it information exposed in public?

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boldstart in 2017, enterprise tech inĀ 2018

BeyondVC

NYC has deep enterprise tech : the NYC you imagine that is full of ad tech and media is not the NYC that we see. Dev Sec Ops is the hot topic in security: With the velocity of software development and the reuse of software components, building in security at developer level becomes a must have.

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How Will Demand Media Make This Work?

Andrew Payne

In that spirit, SEC filings are a great source of entrepreneurial case studies, and recently I’ve been reading about Demand Media. Demand Media has a mix of businesses, including a domain name registrar. Their risk for Google search algorithm changes has been well-reported.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

So from a pure computer science point of view, I had never really studied consensus algorithms in depth. And so the algorithm essentially proposes how using something called hashing power or proof of work. It almost had like a social engineering component to it, as much as it was an algorithmic breakthrough.

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Out of the Crisis #13: Alpha Lee on remembering the 2003 SARS epidemic and his opensource COVID-19 Moonshot

Startup Lessons Learned

Once we saw this evidence, we thought, "Wait a sec, we can actually do something about it." Eric Ries : That's a remarkable use of social media. I still run the research group in Cambridge with 11 post-docs and grad students, where we work on machine learning, algorithms for drug design and molecular design. Alpha Lee : Yeah.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

4G/ LTE (Long Term Evolution) -the fourth generation of networks, enabling faster downloading in 4G phones (100 megabit per second compared to today’s 21 megabit/sec in 3G phones). Our unique and patented algorithms are a breakthrough in the present state of the art. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform.

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