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Bank Innovation Completely Overhauls 2018 Conference Agenda

Bank Innovation

In addition to fireside chats, startup demos, and general sessions, Bank Innovation’s 2018 conference has added a pre-conference workshop on how to build an innovation team, added even more time […].

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How Digital Innovators Capitalize On Subscription Businesses

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Some providers are capitalizing on the concept by launching new services that offer access to premium content such as newspapers and magazines in exchange for a monthly fee. The share of Americans aged 14 to 21 who subscribed to internet-based video services in 2018 is 80 percent. in the fourth quarter of 2018 (although it added 7.3

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Social Capital’s Palihapitiya On What’s Wrong With Social Media

CB Insights

Following 48 hours of media attention for his contentious comments about social media “ripping apart the social fabric of how society works,” the Social Capital co-founder and former Facebook exec discussed his take on stage Wednesday at CB Insights’ A-ha! Chamath Palihapitiya isn’t backing down. conference.

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ZeroFOX Notches $74M To Tackle Cyberattacks

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Cybersecurity firm ZeroFOX closed a $74 million funding round led by Intel Capital that will be used to advance cyberattack detection and remediation, VentureBeat reported on Thursday (Feb. Existing investors NEA, Highland Capital Partners, Redline Capital Management, Hercules Capital and Core Capital also participated in the funding round.

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Andreessen Partner Predicts More Libra-Type Crypto Efforts

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Mint’s decision to phase out production of pennies next year, a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a California-based venture capital firm, said money will be digital by 2030, Bloomberg News reported. The company raised $350 million in 2018 for startups working on the blockchain technology underpinning digital coins.

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Potential Facebook Crypto Launch Pushes Bitcoin Over $9,000

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Bitcoin hasn’t been as high as $9,000 since May of 2018, and the cryptocurrency is now up 14 percent since January. There’s even talk that some employees of the social media giant will be able to get their salaries in the new cryptocurrency. On the latest look on Monday (June 17), it was at $9,157.59.

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Indian Digital Startups Could Be Headed For Slump

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Startup deals in India decreased in 2017 and 2018 compared to previous years, the news outlet reported, citing the data analytics firm Tracxn Technologies. By way of example, the news outlet points to the video content platform Clip launched in early 2018. Deals are also down in 2019. .