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TrovaPage, a new global open internet marketplace, helps creators and other entrepreneurs focus on marketing without detracting from their creativity Cofounder Jingming Li on Tuesday announced the marketplace's launch, though the website has been open for the last few months for entrepreneurs working in the creator industry.

A powerful hardware-based threat detection technology is being integrated into a Microsoft enterprise security product to help protect businesses from cryptojacking malware The move, which integrates Intel Threat Detection Technology with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, was announced Monday in a blog written by Karthik Selvaraj, principal research...

Customer churn is costing mid-market companies an average of $5.5 million per year. Retailers need to avoid the costly mistakes that result in such disastrous churn, according to a recent CRM and Sales Impact Report from SugarCRM. This presents a clamorous alarm to marketers.

The notorious Emotet botnet software began uninstalling itself from some one million computers Sunday According to SecurityWeek, the uninstall command was part of an update sent to the infected computers by law enforcement servers in the Netherlands after Emotet's infrastructure was compromised in January during a multinational operation mounted by...

Some 400 million patients worldwide are affected by more than 7,000 rare diseases; yet treatments for rare genetic diseases remain an underserved area. More than 95 percent of rare diseases do not have an approved treatment, and new treatments are estimated to cost more than $1 billion Sanath Ramesh created the RareCamp project and the OpenTreatmen...

Apple's strategy, which has worked well financially up until now, is called "vendor lock-in." This approach, pioneered by IBM until it almost put the company out of business in the 1990s, is incredibly profitable, but it treats customers like a resource to be mined. It restricts customer movement away from the platform to provide lower quality go...

From coin shortages and curbside operations to contactless transactions, how consumers pay for their purchases has been completely transformed during the pandemic. Marketers expect that transformation to continue and expand The digital payments industry continues to mature at an accelerated pace. Shoppers will see new options with more features thi...

When I last visited the ever-changing Netrunner distribution, I said that Netrunner Linux still went its own way. That was its twentieth rebirthday upgrade over its then 10-year history in late February 2020 The same is true for Netrunner 21.01 XOXO -- now with more modern trappings. Today, the two-month-old Netrunner XOXO release is something much...

A recent study of eBay ads found that digital brand search ad effectiveness is overestimated by up to 4,100 percent. A similar analysis of Facebook ads yielded a number of 4,000 percent If those high figures make you wonder if your company is wasting far too much of its advertising dollars on targeting the wrong audience, Dr. Jorge Barraza, a profe...

Apple introduced a new version of its iMac desktop and a powerful upgrade of its iPad Pro tablet at an online event Tuesday. Both new products are based on Apple's new M1 chip "The whole thing about this event is broadening the use of the M1 chip across all Apple's computers now -- laptops, desktops and iPads," Tim Bajarin, president of Creative St...

An increasing number of consumer-packaged goods (CPG) companies are shifting to the direct-to-consumer (DTC) e-commerce model, thus bypassing retailers as middlemen As a result, brand manufacturers often find themselves competing with their traditional indirect distribution channels, which still remain important to their operations....

DuckDuckGo has announced an add-on to the Chrome browser that blocks Google's new scheme to provide marketers with information for targeting advertising at Internet users The scheme called FLoC -- Federated Learning of Cohorts -- is being tested in Chrome, in some cases without the knowledge of the browser's users....

GTC21, this year's Nvidia GPU Technology Conference, was terrific as always The alleged focus was on AI and autonomous cars. But, as I watched presentation after presentation from folks out of the entertainment industry, I realized that if you started putting some of these various elements together, they effectively predicted the end of movies as ...

Newsletters have become popular over the last few years; and especially over the past year during you-know-what when face-to-face meetings were taboo. Many companies are trying to figure out how to best leverage them, and new software platforms make it increasingly easy to produce one or more For instance, HubSpot, a CRM company based in the Boston...

The larger the Internet superhighway of information grows; the more users get run over by privacy abuses and stolen data. If only we could rebuild the Internet's infrastructure to make data's journey safer and more secure is a common cry of IT and cybersecurity experts Some efforts are underway to mitigate the privacy and data theft issues. But des...

The ominous looming deadline for filing 2020 federal income tax returns has been extended from April 15 to Monday, May 17, 2021. If your paperwork is still in the "pulling it all together phase," our conversation with a tax expert might provide you with a few tips to save money, especially if you are an entrepreneur working in research and develop...

More than 56 million Americans freelanced last year, according to the Freelancers Union With the increasing amount of workers turning to part-time, freelance, and contract work for a variety of reasons, a growing number of businesses are now based on the gig economy model....

A set of flaws in a widely used network communication protocol that could affect millions of devices was revealed Monday by security researchers The nine vulnerabilities discovered by Forescout Research Labs and JSOF Research dramatically increase the attack surface of at least 100 million Internet of Things devices, exposing them to potential atta...

Jonathan Cran, founder and CEO of Intrigue, a cybersecurity startup based in Austin, Texas, used his company's network security tools to compile a list of Fortune 500 companies still exposed to last month's Microsoft Exchange breach. Potentially, many of those companies may not know their networks are compromised Intrigue's tools discovered the ext...

Startup information security firm Intrigue on Tuesday announced a US$2 million seed round led by LiveOak Venture Partners for a new attack service management platform that helps secure enterprise networks. The Intrigue tools scan all public, exposed attack surfaces inside and outside a company The seed funding will also support the security and dev...