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“Along the way, technologies are changing, the market is changing direction and sometimes, once a century or so, there is also an epidemic.”

The i3 Equity Partners fund is not afraid to take high-risk investments, provided the company has the potential to change the rules of the game and create a competency gap that will make it more difficult for competitors. Meanwhile, Adam Fischer of Bessemer and Ille Waldman of Melanox are boasting…

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The ‘PayPal Mafia’ formed in the early 2000s, and includes everyone from Elon Musk to the Yelp founders. Here’s where the original members have ended up.

Since working at PayPal in the early 2000s, these 23 entrepreneurs have all gone on to impact Silicon Valley and the startup world by founding companies and backing new ventures. Known for their entrepreneurial mindset and anti-establishment attitude, this elite group is known as the “PayPal Mafia.” Some are household…

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Ireland turns its ‘startups’ into the EU against Brexit (which does not arrive)

The old tobacco factory in Mullingar smoked Ireland and part of Europe for half a century. Owned by the Imperial Tobacco Group, a former British monopoly with Victorian airs, those ships were a hotbed of machines that made cigarettes and packaged them. Today the facilities are the headquarters of a…

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The issue with facial recognition: Microsoft will investigate the work of the Israeli startup

AnyVision has been subject to scrutiny by Microsoft following reports from the commercial newspaper TheMarker de Haaretz and NBC News that its technology is used to monitor the Palestinians. The facial recognition technology Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) hired former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to investigate whether the use of facial…

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Competition in big tech: Microsoft does not want its employees to use rival services

Competition is nothing new in the technology sector, where companies make a living by copying and improving the products of others. At Microsoft the situation is similar, except for one difference: the company has a list of “prohibited technologies and technologies that are not advisable”, and it continues to grow.…

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