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Companies need to evolve to survive — here’s how you can manage that

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by on July 18, 2019 at 11:00 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Podium


I’ve often said that the only constant in business is change. Staying ahead of the competition, keeping pace with emerging technologies, and meeting customers’ needs as they arise requires agility and the ability to evolve a company’s business needs and those of its customers in real time. But none of this is easy, and none of it happens by accident. It requires an openness to change and an ability to meet these changes head-on by transforming who you are and how you conduct business. With transformation key to a company’s survival, how can we, as leaders, facilitate successful transformation? My…

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State-sponsored cybercriminals attacked 10,000 Microsoft customers in 2018

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by on July 18, 2019 at 10:31 am
Posted In: Around the Web


Microsoft said on Wednesday that it had notified almost 10,000 customers in the past year that they’d been the target of state-sponsored attacks. The Windows maker said the attacks originated from countries like Iran, North Korea, and Russia. “This data demonstrates the significant extent to which nation-states continue to rely on cyberattacks as a tool to gain intelligence, influence geopolitics or achieve other objectives,” Tom Burt, corporate vice president of customer security & trust at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post. About 84 percent of these attacks were aimed at its enterprise customers, and the remaining 16 percent — about…

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Microsoft engineer allegedly used Bitcoin mixers to hide $10M gift card fraud, gets fired

Jul18
by on July 18, 2019 at 9:54 am
Posted In: Around the Web, blockchain, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


US authorities have charged an ex-Microsoft software engineer over a mail fraud plot to steal $10 million worth of digital currency from the tech giant, Fox News reports. Ukrainian citizen and Washington resident Volodymyr Kvashuk (25) allegedly used testing accounts of Microsoft’s online store to purchase gift cards loaded with digital currency, and later resold them via the internet for real money. A Department of Justice (DoJ) statement alleges Kvashuk tried to cover his tracks by using Bitcoin “mixing services” before depositing money from the sales into his bank account. These services “shuffle” amounts of Bitcoin in such a way that…

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Coinbase lets you copy its top cryptocurrency traders with new tool

Jul18
by on July 18, 2019 at 9:41 am
Posted In: Around the Web, cryptocurrency, Hard Fork


Coinbase has today launched a tool that enables users to see information based on the activity of its top traders.  As part of the new launch, customers will see the anonymized data of the top 10 percent of users and can use the information to create their own cryptocurrency investment strategy. Data points will include top holder activity of each asset traded, the median number of days different assets stay in a customer account, the popularity of an asset, and asset price correlation, which will measure the extent to which cryptocurrency values have moved in relation to each other.  “These…

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Full moon patents: Disney’s immersive VR and Microsoft’s next-gen virtual assistant

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by on July 18, 2019 at 9:36 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Contributors, Podium


Ugh, the Gregorian calendar is so boring. That’s why we’re disrupting monthly series with a lunar cycle-based series about the best patents of the last synodic month, picked by the PatentYogi team. Get ready when that moon gets gibbous, y’all. This June-ish roundup lands on the tasty Strawberry Moon! Since my last post, the US patent office issued over 31,961 patents and published over 24,383 patent applications. Each patent asset adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As I cannot list all these patent assets here, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patent assets. Enjoy! Microsoft will…

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