A look at the highest valued startups in the world according to CB Insights shows two Chinese companies at the top. Katharina Buchholz wrote on Statista.com Chinese AI company Bytedance is the highest-valued startup – currently private, up-and-coming company – in the world. The venture, which is valued at US$75 billion, is running content platform Toutiao in China, which uses machine … [Read more...]
An inside look at a major spam operation
There was an article published a couple hours ago on TechCrunch that's worth a read, it delves into a large spam operation and how it was used to send personalized spam email. According to the article the emails were so convincing more than 100,000 people clicked through. From the article: Security researcher Bob Diachenko found the leaking data and with help from TechCrunch analyzed the … [Read more...]
Making a fortune squatting domains on the Dark Web?
Typosquatting on corporate names is not the only squatting game in town. TheNextWeb has a story about someone claiming to have made $760,000 in BTC by squatting on websites that reside on the Tor network. From the article: A scammer is claiming to have made 200 BTC ($760,000) through ‘typosquatting’ criminal dark web sites on the Tor network, over the past four years. The scammer says 800 … [Read more...]
Google gets fined €1.49 billion in Adsense antitrust case
Google has now got hit with their third huge fine from the EU, €1.49 billion, ($1.7 billion) this time around, which is the third highest fine they have had to pay. This was in regards to Adsense, Venture Beat wrote: In those previous filings, the EU noted that Google had originally required some sites, particularly bigger partners, to use AdSense exclusively if they wanted to use … [Read more...]
The 2019 digital landscape
WeAreSocial and Hootsuite put together a pretty comprehensive report on the global digital landscape. The report gives a concise look at each region around the world along with a region by region breakdown. The report is worth taking a look at and bookmarking for those that do a lot of outbound and research the areas they target. This should prove especially helpful for those that sell cctld's … [Read more...]
When Chrome 70 rolls out your favorite site could have a problem
Google is always doing something and sometimes it's wanted and other times it's not wanted, like messing with the URL. According to Zack Whittaker at TechCrunch, when Google releases Chrome 70 a lot of popular sites are going to be blocked. From the article: Chrome 70 is expected to be released on or around October 16, when the browser will start blocking sites that run older Symantec … [Read more...]
Move over Emoji, here comes Animoji
While it may just be a marketing ploy to get people to buy an iPhone X, Apple unveiled Animoji on Tuesday. A new feature in iOS 11, Animoji's are animated versions of emojis found on the iPhone. Animoji will employ Face ID hardware face-scanning features found on the iPhone X to create custom 3D versions based on your own facial expressions. Supposedly they started working on this back in … [Read more...]
