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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

by David Nagrosst, head of sales for Cyxtera Technologies in Asia Pacific, Australia and Japan. Every personal and business computer is connected to the internet these days, which puts people and companies in harm’s way for cyber attacks. Without a doubt, the firewall era has come to an end. The onset of death. Think again.

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Take Your Website Performance To The Next Level

YoungUpstarts

by Roger Chen, Vice President, Asia for GoDaddy. When it comes to finding success as a small business on the internet, having a website set up is merely the first step. The recent Black Friday sales numbers were simply phenomenal. Domain name, check. Web hosting, check. Website designed, check. Shopping cart, check. Mobile Now.

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Digital Transformation And The Evolution of Apps – What’s The Link?

YoungUpstarts

by Keiichiro Nozaki, Regional Marketing Architect/Evangelist of Asia Pacific, China, and Japan for F5 Networks. Mobile is now a significant driver to the volume of software solutions and apps created, and the coming wave of the Internet of Things (IoT) will only accelerate this trend. A century ago, we had the industrial revolution.

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Coping With Late Payment – Managing Asia’s Slow Payers

YoungUpstarts

Across Asia Pacific, the average number of days for an invoice to be paid rose from 48 to 56, compared to the same period in the previous year. credit terms), a rise in daily sales outstanding, or DSO, affects the cash flows of local businesses. If you can hold less stock without adversely affecting sales, this can reduce DSO.

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Edge Analytics – The Pros and Cons Of Immediate, Local Insight

YoungUpstarts

The Internet of Things (IoT) brings businesses many benefits, primary access to more data and better insights. Gartner estimates that there will be 25 billion “things” connected to the Internet by 2020. by Jason Bissell and Calvin Hoon, Talend. 1] “The Data of Things: How Edge Analytics and IoT go Hand in Hand,” September 2015. [2]

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Find an Angel Investor, Without Going Through Hell

Startup Professionals Musings

They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes. With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. Angel investors are people too. Investors expect you to understand their motivation, respect their time, and show your integrity in all actions.

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Think you’ve got a strategy to enter the Chinese market? Think twice

The Next Web

Yu Yongfu is the chairman and CEO of UCWeb , whose mission is to provide a better mobile Internet experience to billions of users around the world. Asia Entrepreneur Insider Analysis and Opinion Investigations' Earlier in his career, he was a VP at Legend Capital. Cultural immersion.

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