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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. At the onset of the war in Ukraine, Russia launched a cyber-attack on Viasat’s KA-SAT satellite, which supplies Internet across Europe, including to Ukraine.

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Freelancing is the new normal: oDesk and the future of the workforce marketplace

The Next Web

On the enterprise side of our business, we’ve seen the increasing demand from traditional large corporate buyers looking for ways to manage a more distribute workforce,” Cooper said. “In Every part of our organization has members of the team that are distributed all over the world. Focus on the East.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. The team created an elaborate map showing the transit and smuggling routes from dozens of African countries to the Mediterranean, and possible distribution points for such bracelets in hubs served by groups like Red Cross/Red Crescent.

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Hacking for Diplomacy – The State Department Takes Notice

Steve Blank

Terrorists harnessing the internet to radicalize and recruit new members. The team created an elaborate map showing the transit and smuggling routes from dozens of African countries to the Mediterranean, and possible distribution points for such bracelets in hubs served by groups like Red Cross/Red Crescent.

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Facebook Acquires Israel’s Snaptu For an Estimated $60-70 Million

VC Cafe

Snaptu is a fast-growing application for feature-phones (or not-so-smart phones) which serves as a mini-app store for WAP-Internet phones. As of today, Snaptu has 30 million installs and is distributed on the app stores of Nokia (Ovi), Vodafone, Airtel, Blackberry, Sony Ericcson and Getjar, the largest independent application store.

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Is Outsourcing Exploitation?

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

Then, as I grew more exposed to the Internet marketing industry, when people promoted outsourcing, using language like “ you can hire people for $2 an hour &# something bothered me. I’ve interviewed internet marketers many times where the subject of outsourcing has come up. What Do People Think About Outsourcing?

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Turing Distinguished Leader Series: With Partner David Zhang, TVC

ReadWriteStart

He focuses on investments in fintech, the internet, and software. So that’s the big one, obviously, with the geopolitical tensions, not just Russia and Ukraine. We believed this thing would be able to unlock a multi-product distribution and really strengthen the business mode. Jonathan Siddharth . Welcome, David.

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