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Have a startup in Miami? Apply to pitch at TechCrunch’s Miami virtual meetupMarch 3, 2021 at 10:15 AM TechCrunch is coming to Miami — virtually, at least. On March 11, TechCrunch is hosting a small online event with local venture capitalists, founders, and those curious about the growing ecosystem. There will also be a small pitch-off event where Florida-based startups have three minutes to pitch their companies to Florida-based VCs.
Everyone is welcome to attend the event, but we’re looking for startups based in the Miami region to pitch at this event. TechCrunch has a long history of hosting s...Tags: TC, Florida, Tech, Miami, Pittsburgh, Detroit Ann Arbor, City Spotlight 146 people like this. Like Xage introduces Zero Trust remote access cloud solution for hard-to-secure environmentsMarch 2, 2021 at 10:20 AM When a hacker broke into the computer systems of the Oldsmar Florida water supply last month, it sent up red flags across the operational tech world, whether that’s utilities or oil and gas pipelines. Xage, a security startup that has been building a solution to help protect these hard-to-secure operations, announced a Zero Trust remote access cloud solution today that could help prevent these kinds of attacks.
Duncan Greatwood, CEO at Xage, says flat out that if his company’s software was in pl...Tags: Security, TC, Cloud, Florida, Enterprise, Tech, Vnc, Blockchain, Crunchbase, Oldsmar, Distributed Ledger, Oldsmar Florida, Xage, Duncan Greatwood, Greatwood, Blockchain security 2 people like this. Like ‘Worst house on the street’: Brutally honest Florida listing goes viralMarch 1, 2021 at 11:59 AM "The roof leaks, the floor creaks, and there's a terrible draft," Future Home Realty's Philippa Main wrote in the listing description.Tags: Florida, Technology, Instagram, Listings, Lifestyle, Radio, Hgtv, News Brief, Realtor.com, Future Home Realty, Philippa Main, Zillow Gone Wild 31 people like this. Like Goldman Sachs is losing 2 consumer banking execs to Walmart. Here's a look at how the powerhouse Wall Street bank has been making a Main Street push.March 1, 2021 at 9:07 AM Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is taking big steps to transform the bank.
Goldman has been pushing into consumer banking and wealth management.
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Goldman Sachs has been going through some massive changes under CEO David Solomon.It's taken big steps involving transparency and inclusion to change up its culture. After its first-ever investor day in ea...Tags: Apple, Amazon, Hong Kong, Florida, New York, Trends, General Motors, Walmart, Bloomberg, Netflix, Malaysia, Manhattan, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, Getty, Goldman 121 people like this. Like Trump calls on states to 'punish' big tech with sanctions if they 'silence conservative voices'February 28, 2021 at 7:51 PM President Donald Trump addresses the Conservative Political Action Conference held in the Hyatt Regency on February 28, 2021 in Orlando, Florida.
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During his CPAC speech, Donald Trump accused big tech of censorship.
He said section 230 should be repealed and that states should act if the federal government won't.
Trump said states should sanction Twitter, Google, and Facebook if they "silence conservative voices."
Visit the Business section of Insider for more storie...Tags: Google, Facebook, Twitter, Florida, Politics, White House, Censorship, Trends, Associated Press, Donald Trump, Free Speech, Trump, Orlando Florida, Hyatt Regency, CPAC, Ron DeSantis 85 people like this. Like 3 ways the US economy is uniquely positioned for a great new era in the 2020sFebruary 28, 2021 at 9:05 AM America is ready for a new era that won't be like times past.
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Vaccines and massive stimulus signal a light at the end of the pandemic tunnel and a new era for the US economy.
Antitrust proceedings against big tech could create many more jobs, while remote work is threatening so-called superstar cities.
Insider breaks down how these 3 factors are leading the US into a unique period of economic prosperity.
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Vacc...Tags: Google, Facebook, Florida, New York, Instagram, Wall Street, New York City, US, Alabama, America, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Trends, Joe Biden, Standard Oil, Ibm 131 people like this. Like Wall Street powerhouse Goldman Sachs is going through a massive transformation under CEO David SolomonFebruary 27, 2021 at 9:14 AM Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
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Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon is taking big steps to transform the bank.
Goldman has been pushing into consumer banking and wealth management.
Here's the latest news on Goldman Sachs.
Visit the Business section of Insider for more stories.
Goldman Sachs has been going through some massive changes under CEO David Solomon.It's taken big steps involving transparency and inclusion to change up its culture. After its first-ever investor day in ea...Tags: Apple, Amazon, Hong Kong, Florida, New York, Wall Street, Trends, Netflix, Malaysia, Manhattan, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, Getty, Goldman, Instacart, United 113 people like this. Like Blue Origin pushes New Glenn orbital rocket’s first flight to Q4 2022February 25, 2021 at 12:16 PM Jeff Bezos’ space company Blue Origin published an updated timeline for the first flight of New Glenn, the orbital rocket it’s building to complement its existing New Shepard suborbital space launch vehicle. The company is now targeting Q4 2022 – a slippage of roughly a year from the prior stated timeline of sometime towards the end of 2021. The main cause, per Blue Origin? Space Force passing on using New Glenn to launch national security payloads during a recent contract bid process.
Blue Orig...Tags: TC, Space, Spacex, Florida, Science, Tech, Space Tourism, Jeff Bezos, Spaceflight, Aerospace, United Launch Alliance, Blue Origin, Cape Canaveral, Northrop Grumman, Glenn, Outer Space 37 people like this. Like 6 Miami-based investors share their views on the region’s startup sceneFebruary 23, 2021 at 3:59 PM Miami is quickly becoming a symbol for the tech exodus from Silicon Valley. The area is home to a number of investors, successful tech founders and an eager local government.
For this survey, TechCrunch spoke to a number of investors about the area’s potential, opportunities and key players. This is the second survey TechCrunch published on the area and the first can be found here.
In this survey, these investors agree on several aspects of Miami. They see a huge opportunity for the region to be...Tags: Startups, TC, Florida, New York, Boston, Softbank, America, San Francisco, Tech, United States, David Marcus, Venture Capital, Miami, Silicon Valley, South America, Latin America 84 people like this. Like Anuvia raises $103 million to commercialize its novel fertilizerFebruary 23, 2021 at 8:18 AM Anuvia Plant Nutrients has raised $103 million to commercialize its novel fertilizer technology.
The company, backed by investors like TPG ART, Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund , Generate Capital and Piva Capital , is now ready to roll out its tech, which is already used on roughly 1200 farms and is projected to be on 20 million acres of farmland by 2025.
Now led by longtime agriculture executive Amy Yoder, who represents the sixth generation of a Michigan farm...Tags: TC, Florida, Technology, Articles, Tech, United States, Farmers, Agriculture, Michigan, Food Waste, Soil, Chemicals, Indigo, Yoder, TPG, Winter Garden Fla 34 people like this. Like Spain is already a prime cybersecurity and cloud market for Google, which has just teamed up with BBVA to predict cyberattacks on the bankFebruary 23, 2021 at 4:45 AM This is an automated machine translation of an article published by Business Insider in a different language. Machine translations can generate errors or inaccuracies; we will continue the work to improve these translations. You can find the original version here.The potential for cybersecurity in Spain is huge, and Google is aware of it.The search engine multinational announced a few weeks ago that it would open a cybersecurity center of excellence in Malaga, precisely where Bernardo Quintero, ...Tags: Apple, Google, Europe, Florida, Africa, Trends, Spain, European Commission, Idc, Málaga, Bbva, Europe Middle East, Chronicle, Garrido, CISO, BI International 34 people like this. Like No place is safe from failing US infrastructureFebruary 22, 2021 at 6:30 PM In the face of rising homelessness, increasing crime and inadequate public transit in San Francisco, many tech influencers are pulling up stakes to geographies that offer a seemingly more welcome climate to conduct business and make investments. But the ongoing disaster in Texas makes one cold truth very clear: No place is safe from America’s failure to invest in infrastructure or take climate change seriously.
The shock of seeing the cradle of America’s energy industry crippled by its inability...Tags: TC, Florida, Texas, California, Climate, US, America, San Francisco, Tech, Tesla, Infrastructure, Denmark, Founders Fund, Don, Texas Tech, Harvey 38 people like this. Like Elon Musk says Starlink's satellite internet speeds will 'double' in 2021February 22, 2021 at 2:03 PM FSET delivering SpaceX's Starlink to Pikangikum
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Elon Musk said Starlink's internet speeds will double data transfer times will drop later this year.
The satellite internet provider currently has over 10,000 beta users, it previously said.
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Elon Musk, the founder and CEO of SpaceX, updated followers on Twitter about the future of the company's Starlink satellite internet venture. On Monday, Musk responded to a tweet from a new...Tags: Spacex, Elon Musk, Florida, News, Trends, Tech, Canada, Musk, Cape Canaveral, StarLink, Tech Insider, Pikangikum First Nation, Annabelle Williams, Pikangikum FSET Elon Musk 132 people like this. Like Watch Live as Perseverance, NASA's Newest Rover, Lands on MarsFebruary 18, 2021 at 2:59 PM It took six and a half months for Perseverance to travel from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida to the atmosphere of the red planet. It will now take about seven minutes to get from the atmosphere to the sandy ground. The highly-anticipated 293-million-mile journey of Perseverance is moments away from its conclusion. NASA's newest rover is set to touch down in Jerezo Crater at 12:55 p.m. Pacific. If all goes according to plan, Perseverance will begin its search for signs of ancient Mar...Tags: Florida, Tech, Nasa, Mars, Pacific, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Jerezo Crater 138 people like this. Like Black art is front and center this Black History MonthFebruary 18, 2021 at 9:00 AM For centuries, Black artists have used their crafts to share their lived experiences with the world. Art as self-expression is not a new concept, but how we display it and share it in today's digital world is. Throughout Black History Month, Google is honoring the creativity and influence of Black artistry by putting it front and center on our products and platforms. Doodles galore Today, we’re honoring internationally acclaimed poet and civil rights champion Audre Lorde with a slideshow ...Tags: Google, Google Play, Florida, Youtube, America, Los Angeles, United States, Wisconsin, Philadelphia, Google Shopping, Black, Harlem, Doodle, Hill, Monica, BRIANNA 114 people like this. Like San Francisco is no longer the best performing city in the US, according to an annual economic rankingFebruary 17, 2021 at 12:07 PM Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times/Getty Images
San Francisco plummeted from the top spot in a ranking of cities with the best economic performance.
The pandemic has shifted the power away from traditional tech hubs with high costs of living.
However, a shift toward cheaper cities like Miami and Austin could ultimately lessen their affordability.
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San Francisco has plummeted from its spot as the "best performing" city in th...Tags: Twitter, Florida, Real Estate, News, California, Massachusetts, US, San Francisco, Trends, Tech, Austin, Dallas, Miami, Silicon Valley, Salt Lake City, Tech Jobs 99 people like this. Like David Tepper is reportedly buying a $73 million mansion in Palm Beach as Wall Street billionaires continue to flock to FloridaFebruary 17, 2021 at 12:44 PM David Tepper.
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Hedge fund billionaire David Tepper is reportedly buying a $73 million Palm Beach mansion.
Tepper's reported purchase comes as Wall Street firms and executives are flocking to Florida.
Silicon Valley investors and executives are also making the move, sending home prices soaring.
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David Tepper is reportedly planning to buy a $73 million mansion in Palm Beach, the latest Wall Street billionaire...Tags: Florida, Real Estate, New York, Finance, Wall Street, Trends, Tech, Bloomberg, Peter Thiel, Miami, Goldman Sachs, Blackstone, Carolina Panthers, Carl Icahn, Bermuda, South Florida 63 people like this. Like Inside a massive transformation at Goldman SachsFebruary 17, 2021 at 11:22 AM Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
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Goldman Sachs has been going through some massive changes under CEO David Solomon.It's taken big steps involving transparency and inclusion to change up its culture. After its first-ever investor day in early 2020, the firm is looking to execute on targets including multi-year cost-cutting plans. And it's making big pushes into businesses like wealth management and consumer banking. Now, the elite Wall Street bank is finally launching its do-it-...Tags: Apple, Amazon, Hong Kong, Florida, New York, Trends, Netflix, Malaysia, Manhattan, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, Getty, Goldman, Instacart, United, Wealthfront 77 people like this. Like LA-based Metropolis raises $41 million to upgrade parking infrastructureFebruary 16, 2021 at 10:26 AM Metropolis is a new Los Angeles-based startup that’s looking to compete with BMW-owned ParkMobile for a slice of the automated parking lot management market.
Upgrading ParkMobile’s license plate-based service with a computer vision based system that recognizes cars as they enter and leave garages has been Metropolis’ mission since founder and chief executive Alex Israel first formed the business back in 2017.
Israel, a serial entrepreneur, has spent decades thinking about parking. His last compa...Tags: Cleaning, TC, Facebook, Florida, Storage, Dick Costolo, La, Softbank, Israel, Los Angeles, Tech, Transport, Nba, Starwood, Metropolis, Bmw 39 people like this. Like Goldman Sachs is finally launching DIY wealth management, marking the latest in a massive transformation at the powerhouse Wall Street bankFebruary 16, 2021 at 8:32 AM Goldman Sachs CEO David Solomon.
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Goldman Sachs has been going through some massive changes under CEO David Solomon.It's taken big steps involving transparency and inclusion to change up its culture. After its first-ever investor day in early 2020, the firm is looking to execute on targets including multi-year cost-cutting plans. And it's making big pushes into businesses like wealth management and consumer banking. Now, the elite Wall Street bank is finally launching its do-it-...Tags: Apple, Amazon, Hong Kong, Florida, New York, Trends, Netflix, Malaysia, Manhattan, Goldman Sachs, Salt Lake City, Getty, Goldman, Instacart, United, Wealthfront 89 people like this. Like Notion’s hours-long outage was caused by phishing complaintsFebruary 15, 2021 at 11:00 AM Last week’s hours-long outage at online workspace startup Notion was caused by phishing complaints, according to the startup’s domain registrar.
Notion was offline for most of the morning on Friday, plunging its more than four million users into organization darkness because of what the company called a “very unusual DNS issue that occurred at the registry operator level.” With the company’s domain offline, users were unable to access their files, calendars, and documents.
We're experienc...Tags: Security, Florida, Crime, Email, Internet, Web Hosting, Tech, Spokesperson, Cybercrime, Reddit, Phishing, Dns, Notion, World Wide Web, Spamming, Ancestry 47 people like this. Like Miami City Council Agrees to At Least Study Mayor's Bitcoin ProposalFebruary 13, 2021 at 4:59 PM Miami's mayor Francis Suarez is trying to attract tech talent to his city. (The New York Times recently noted he's joined by "a few venture capital influencers trying to tweet the city's startup world into existence.") So he's still pushing a proposal to use bitcoin in a few city operations as "part of a larger play if you will to position Miami as one of the most tech-forward cities in the country," according to Reuters.
Bloomberg reports:
The mayor wants to allow the City of Miami's workers...Tags: Florida, Tech, Bloomberg, Bitcoin, New York Times, Miami, Suarez, Ken Russell, Reuters Bloomberg, Francis Suarez, Miami City Council 112 people like this. Like Are Social Media Services “State Actors” or “Common Carriers”?February 12, 2021 at 2:17 PM Yesterday, I did a videoconference with Prof. Eugene Volokh (UCLA Law) discussing if and how legislatures could regulate Internet services. Watch the video. Prof. Volokh and I usually agree on most things, but this time we may reach different conclusions. I think Prof. Volokh might be open to the idea that a legislature could declare social media to be a “common carrier” and impose associated must-carry obligations. In contrast, I’m a hard no, and I hate the question because it only matters if ...Tags: Google, Facebook, Florida, Law, Congress, Youtube, Washington, Linkedin, Icann, United States, North Dakota, Aclu, Baidu, Johnson, Smith, Goldman 18 people like this. Like A webcam app left thousands of user accounts exposed onlineFebruary 11, 2021 at 2:02 PM A webcam app installed by thousands of users left an exposed database packed with user data on the internet without a password.
The Elasticsearch database belonged to Adorcam, an app for viewing and controlling several webcam models including Zeeporte and Umino cameras. Security researcher Justin Paine discovered the data exposure and contacted Adorcam, which secured the database.
Paine said in a blog post shared with TechCrunch that the database contained about 124 million rows of data for the...Tags: Security, Florida, Tech, Ancestry, Paine, MQTT, Justin Paine, Adorcam 48 people like this. Like Watch Prince Perform “Purple Rain” in the Rain in His Transcendent Super Bowl Half-Time Show (2007)February 11, 2021 at 1:29 PM Prince is having an afterlife the opposite of most rock stars. Where the years after death seems to bring our gods down to human size, the more stories I hear about Prince, the more I am convinced he was either beyond human or one of the very few constantly working at maximum potential. But not only that, he also helped others realize their own potential, especially members of his touring band.
I hope that’s your takeaway after having watched not just this mini-doc of his 2007 Super Bowl...Tags: Google, Music, Florida, Hollywood, Fcc, College, NFL, Paul Mccartney, Miami, Prince, Justin Timberlake, Maya, Janet Jackson, Chicago Tribune, Facebook Twitter, Boomer 75 people like this. Like UpEquity raises $25 million in equity and debt for its cash-pay mortgage lending serviceFebruary 11, 2021 at 8:30 AM With a stated goal of aligning the mortgage industry with consumer interests, Austin-based UpEquity has raised $25 million in equity and debt funding to expand its business.
Chief executive Tim Herman started the mortgage lending company to take advantage of what he saw as inefficiencies in the $2 trillion U.S. housing market.
Existing financial services and property technology companies treat the symptom and not the cause of market inefficiencies, said Herman.
The company makes free cash offe...Tags: TC, Florida, Real Estate, Texas, Money, Colorado, Navy, California, Finance, Boston, Tech, Economy, Austin, United States, Bank, Mortgage 29 people like this. Like Hacked Florida Water Plant Reportedly Had No Firewall and Poor Password SecurityFebruary 11, 2021 at 9:30 AM The water plant in Oldsmar, Fla. targeted by a hacker in a horrifying cyberattack last week is said to have exhibited very weak IT security practices. Recent updates from government authorities claim the facility did not have some basic network protections—including a firewall. Read more...Tags: Florida, Science, Technology, Cybercrime, Computing, Cyberwarfare, Computer Security, Solarwinds, Scada, TeamViewer, Remote administration software, Computer Network Security, Information Technology Management, OLDSMAR Fla, Security Hacker, Technology Internet 96 people like this. Like Poor Password Security Led to Recent Water Treatment Facility HackFebruary 11, 2021 at 6:55 AM New details have emerged about the remote computer intrusion at a Florida water treatment facility last Friday, highlighting a lack of adequate security measures needed to bulletproof critical infrastructure environments.
The breach, which occurred last Friday, involved an unsuccessful attempt on the part of an adversary to increase sodium hydroxide dosage in the water supply to dangerous levels [Author: [email protected] (Ravie Lakshmanan)]Tags: Florida, Tech, Ravie Lakshmanan 48 people like this. Like Daily Crunch: Reddit raises $250MFebruary 9, 2021 at 6:29 PM Reddit raises more funding, Shopify expands payments to Facebook and a study suggests that the Apple Watch might be able to predict COVID diagnoses. This is your Daily Crunch for February 9, 2021.
The big story: Reddit raises $250M
This latest funding announcement comes after Reddit has returned to the headlines, with the WallStreetBets subreddit playing a crucial role in the spectacular rise and fall of GameStop shares (along with other stocks). The company also ran a five-second Super Bowl ad ...Tags: Fundings & Exits, Startups, Facebook, Spotify, Florida, Media, Instagram, Funding, US, Tech, Earth, Reddit, Shopify, Gamestop, Eniac Ventures, Mount Sinai 135 people like this. Like Decrypted: A hacker attempted to poison Florida town’s water supplyFebruary 9, 2021 at 2:04 PM Oldsmar is a small town in Florida that became the center of the cyber world this week when a hacker broke into its drinking water supply and tried to poison it.
It’s the nightmare scenario that the security community has warned for years, one that could kill thousands by targeting the critical infrastructure that we all rely on. The hacker gained access to a computer at the water facility used for running remote control software TeamViewer, according to Reuters, and jacked up the levels of sodi...Tags: Iphone, Android, Security, Florida, Government, Nbc News, America, Tech, Ransomware, Fbi, Robert Lee, Computer Security, Reuters, Bob Gualtieri, Gualtieri, Robert M Lee 41 people like this. Like |
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