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Internet Growth Means Big Changes For How Businesses Connect

YoungUpstarts

By John Curran, President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN). When the Internet was first conceived as a better way for computers to communicate with one another, no one could predict the impact it would have on business communications. billion of them.

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The State of Gaming in 2022

VC Cafe

We are in the experimentation stage, where brands, IP, communities, are testing the waters for relevancy, connection with the younger fans, and new income potential. Toya partners with IP holders to create engaging experiences, like Miraculous Ladybug Role Play, which has just won the Best Alternative Game 2022 by Kidscreen.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Instagram is a textbook example.)

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VoIP: What Is It And What Benefits Does It Offer Your Company?

YoungUpstarts

VoIP (‘Voice over Internet Protocol’) has become a major player for a lot of companies. And we understand that plenty of businesses favour internet telephony over analogue lines, because it has many benefits. You use one uniform method for telephone traffic – and other unified communication services – via the internet.

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IP-Delivered TV: Are We There Yet?

Andrew Payne

I’ve always felt television, in the limit, will be delivered over IP. Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. The way our traditional television content is produced, financed, and distributed is balled up in a big legacy with a lot of inertia.

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IP-Delivered TV: Are We There Yet?

Andrew Payne

I’ve always felt television, in the limit, will be delivered over IP. Specialized, proprietary cable TV distribution is gradually giving way to big, fast, cheap IP pipes. The way our traditional television content is produced, financed, and distributed is balled up in a big legacy with a lot of inertia.

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Smart Contracts on Bitcoin

Version One Ventures

This model of building layered protocols like Lightning on top of Bitcoin has always intuitively made sense to me and appears most analogous to what played out in the first Internet wave (ala TCP/IP). . This is precisely what we’ve seen with various bridge approaches like wrapped Bitcoin (WBTC) and, to a lesser extent, tBTC and Ren.