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Will Bitcoin adoption be driven outside the US?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Some attributed one of the recent rises in Bitcoin price to worries in Cyprus and Spain about the fragility of their banking systems. M-PESA, a payments system enabled on mobile phones, now constitutes 31% of Kenya’s GDP. But these happy circumstances do not hold in every country in the world.

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What is Bitcoin good for? Not Silk Road.

Hacking Startups

Bitcoin is uniquely suited for applications where capital mobility is critical. Government could pass all sorts of laws regulating or even prohibiting Bitcoins, but it lacks technical means of just grabbing them like it can with contents of domestic bank accounts (think Cyprus) or devaluing like with cash (think everywhere).

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? Move over Bangalore, there’s a new Indian metropolis evolving with its finger on the pulse of cloud, mobile and digital technologies. Nicosia, Cyprus?. The region is teetering on the forefront of IT, mobile technology and life sciences.

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200.000.000 mobile users, for starters – Q&A with Viber CEO Talmon Marco

The Next Web

Free mobile messaging and VoIP service provider Viber today made a slew of announcements , including reaching the milestone of 200 million users, the roll-out of Viber 3.0 The company is based in Cyprus with development centers in Belarus, Israel and China. At the time mobile messaging was a novelty. Maybe someday.

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Spam Laws, Email Marketing, and Compliance

Duct Tape Marketing

Cyprus – Section 06 of the Regulation of Electronic Communications and Postal Services Law of 2004. John Thies is the CEO and Co-Founder of Email on Acid , a service that gives email marketers a preview of how their emails are displayed in the most popular email clients and mobile devices. Czech Republic – Act No.

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Create High-Impact Data Visualizations: Nine Effective Strategies

Occam's Razor

Cyprus and Ireland. The website and visualization will work on your mobile device (yea!), (This is embarrassing but I was surprised how big Italy is, and how small Sweden is.). The clusters of countries next to each other, for the sake of cleaner lines, all by itself has a built-in message. UK, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia.

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