Tagged: internet

September 4, 2023 @ 4:43 am By Michael Wong  |  

Japan’s telecom giant IPS Inc. has committed an additional $100 million in new investments into the Philippines for 2023 to 2024 to expand the capacity of a modern and secure gateway for the archipelago. This announcement was made by the Philippine Department of Information and… Read More

April 13, 2023 @ 8:46 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Jeremy Fox-Geen. Chief Financial Officer at Fintech firm Circle and Kash Razzaghi, the firm’s Chief Business Officer, have noted that digital currencies and the blockchains on which they travel can offer considerable utility “as a new, unified infrastructure for payments, commerce and capital markets built… Read More

June 8, 2022 @ 12:07 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

While the adoption of Web2 computing technologies has gained traction in the consumer and enterprise segments, security breaches and privacy concerns “continue to mar this space,” according to an update from Huobi. Web3 computing, with its inherent ability to alleviate such issues, “will likely see… Read More

May 29, 2022 @ 5:29 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Presearch, the private, “decentralized” search engine with 3.8 million registered users and 150 million monthly searches, has announced its Mainnet launch, “shifting all search traffic to run on its decentralized network of community-run nodes.” Rather than using centralized computing infrastructure that is fully controlled by… Read More

May 28, 2021 @ 4:47 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

  Global fintech Circle announced on Friday it secured $440 million through its latest investment round.  Fidelity Management and Research Company, Marshall Wace, Willett Advisors, Intersection Fintech Ventures, Atlas Merchant Capital, Digital Currency Group, FTX, Breyer Capital, Valor Capital Group, Pillar VC, as well as Michael J…. Read More

February 1, 2021 @ 11:55 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

Public liability, professional indemnity and employers liability are no longer adequate when it comes to protecting your company or business. But there are certain covers available that could secure your company further, according to a blog post published by Revolut. The leading digital banking platform… Read More

October 20, 2020 @ 10:03 pm By JD Alois  |  

While finance may be the first killer app for blockchain, the technology has spawned many other concepts pertaining to decentralization. The IOUR Foundation is seeking to utilize blockchain to re-think and redefine the internet. In brief, IOUR wants to merge TCP/IP and blockchain, launching a… Read More

September 18, 2020 @ 12:42 pm By Omar Faridi  |  

John Izaguirre, the Business Director, Europe at Ontology, a high-performance or high-throughput blockchain platform, believes that privacy is a basic human right. Izaguiree notes that data is becoming a very important topic for both individuals and companies. However, he believes that the Internet is still… Read More

September 11, 2020 @ 8:27 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Christine Lagarde, the President of the European Central Bank (ECB), has noted that money facilitates both transactions and relationships. According to the former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chair, money may be considered “an expression of sovereignty.” Lagarde, whose comments came during the recently held Deutsche… Read More

October 16, 2019 @ 10:31 am By Omar Faridi  |  

Southeast Asia’s internet and e-commerce economy is growing steadily due to the widespread use of mobile phones. The region’s middle class has also been growing, according to a recent report compiled by Google, Temasek and Bain & Company. Published earlier this month, the e-Conomy SEA… Read More

October 27, 2018 @ 9:33 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

Wildanet, a UK-based wireless internet service provider (WISP), has secured the initial £1 million funding target through its equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube. Founded in 2017, Wildanet describes itself as a company that provides fast wireless internet access to rural and hard to reach areas. “We… Read More

October 26, 2017 @ 11:39 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

California-based data analytics startup, hiQ Labs, has launched a crowdfunding campaign on CrowdJustice to continue its legal against LinkedIn over access to publicly available on the internet. According to hiQ, the initiative is seeking $100,000 to fund litigation costs, which includes the cost of the… Read More

July 12, 2017 @ 3:31 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Nearly three years after Kickstarter joined forces with various internet giants to protest against net neutrality, the crowdfunding giant has made the move to stand against potential changes to the current FCC net neutrality regulations. On Wednesday, visitors to Kickstarter’s main website page were greeted… Read More

November 11, 2016 @ 9:20 am By Jessica Pham  |  

Fintech is emerging as the next big transformation in India India and the UK held a joint Tech Summit on November 7-9 in New Delhi, where Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India emphasized close collaboration between the two nations during his remarks because it was “vital that India… Read More

November 18, 2015 @ 2:15 am By Midori Yoshimura  |  

China’s Internet search giant Baidu will partner with China Citic Bank, part of state-owned conglomerate Citic Group, to launch an online bank, according to the Financial Times. The FT notes that Citic Bank, suspended its shares in Shanghai and Hong Kong on Monday pending announcement… Read More

October 20, 2015 @ 3:24 pm By Samantha Hurst  |  

Seeking to make the Internet safer for children, Tennessee startup Torch has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise $150,000 for its self-titled digital parenting router. Explaining the importance of Internet safety, the Torch team stated: “If you are raising children today, you know… Read More

June 5, 2015 @ 11:02 am By Samantha Hurst  |  

In an effort to bring public access TV to the Internet, former employees of VICE media recently launched a Kickstarter for a new independent video-only platform, NYC.TV. Alexandra Serio, Kareem Rahma, and Max Nelson met while working at VICE Media and decided to create the platform,… Read More

August 30, 2013 @ 3:02 pm By JD Alois  |  

GATE Global Impact (GGI), an electronic regulatory-compliant marketplace that provides market infrastructure for public and private investments, has partnered with Indigo Group to provide high-speed internet to the parts of the developing world.  The project titled,  “ImpactWIFI“,  will bring the internet to rural areas in Africa to increase… Read More

May 15, 2013 @ 12:13 pm By GigaOM  |  

Coming off a successful Kickstarter campaign to fund its Dispatch broadband aggregation software, Connectify is returning to the crowd-funding site for the next iteration of its product. This time around, the Philadelphia startup is developing a cloud-based packet parsing and channel bonding service called Switchboard designed to… Read More

May 7, 2013 @ 4:17 pm By Charles Luzar  |  

Take a versatile wi-fi hotspot, build it to withstand everything the outdoors could toss at it and give it enough backup power to withstand a minor blackout. You’d be holding a BRCK. The BRCK works much the way your cell phone does, by intelligently and… Read More