British born investor Ben Horowitz, co-founder of investors Andreessen-Horowitz which has funds of $2.7bn invested, is looking for ‘really bad ideas’. "We invest in college drop-outs with insane ideas going after tiny markets ...
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Orange County Clothing Company (OCCC) is a local / grass roots clothing line created by long-time Huntington Beach resident, Seth Matson. OCCC focuses mostly on cool and fun tees, hoodies, hats and art which embody the So-Cal, OC beach ...
Despite news that Google’s security team is experimenting with ways to replace passwords for logging in to websites, security experts have warned that passwords should not yet be tossed. Many experts have, however, acknowledged that ...
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IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
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Visa said Tuesday that it has expanded its digital wallet service V.me to an additional 53 banks and 23 merchant partners. About 55 million cardholders now can use V.me for their online shopping. V.me is a wallet service that aims to make ...
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Computerworld - Mobile payment technologies are finally vaulting forward in the U.S. after years of slow advances. The biggest move ahead could occur in September, when Apple is widely expected to embrace a mobile payment scheme with its ...
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IDG News Service - While NoSQL may be getting all the buzz, in many cases an old fashioned relational database, such as MySQL, may work just as well if not better. That was the message from a number of MySQL users who presented their ...
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KENMORE, WA, July 11, 2012 /24-7PressRelease/ -- TuneNGo, Inc., a cloud-based solutions provider for small business, is pleased to announce the launch of the first comprehensive online consumer-interactive calendaring, scheduling, eCommerce ...
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A new Flame and Stuxnet-related cyber-threat,dubbed Gauss,is targeting users in the Middle East,security researchers have revealed. Gauss is a complex,state-sponsored cyber-espionage toolkit with online banking Trojan functionality not ...
Mobile payments are expected to be worth $730bn by 2017 with high street purchases driving growth, according to a study from Juniper Research. The report: Mobile Payments for Digital & Physical Goods: Opportunity Analysis 2012-2017 ...
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Half of UK Visa payments will be made through mobile devices by 2020 as mobile infrastructures pave the way for mass adoption of mobile wallets. According to Visa Europe, 2013 will see the acceleration of the use of mobile payments ...
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Attackers can read emails, contacts and other private data from the accounts of Yahoo users who visit a malicious page by abusing a feature present on Yahoo's Developer Network website, says an independent security researcher. A limited ...
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A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010. Christopher ...
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Google, Microsoft and Yahoo have remedied a cryptographic weakness in their email systems that could allow an attacker to create a spoofed message that passes a mathematical security verification. The weakness affects DKIM, or DomainKeys ...
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Yahoo's revenue dropped slightly but earnings rose during the third quarter, the first complete one under the helm of new CEO Marissa Mayer. Revenue came in at $1.2 billion in the quarter ended Sept. 30, down 1% year on year. Subtracting ...
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