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Technology Trends: 10 Areas of Innovation to Watch for 2012

This is going to be BIG.

What areas need to be disrupted? Election years tend to be good for technology diffusion. Credit cards "just work" and peer to peer transactions just aren't big enough to bootstrap a network. One of the best things any investor can do is to pull back from the day to day of getting pitches and think about high level trends.

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Stealth Nexthop AI Emerges with $110M in funding to Build Next-Gen Networking Infrastructure for Hyperscalers

American Entrepreneurship

The company is building specialized networking solutions that offer cloud giants hardware and software that integrates seamlessly into each customers optimized stack. With this capital injection, Nexthop AI plans to accelerate the development of its cutting-edge networking solutionstailored specifically for hyperscale AI infrastructure.

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5 Disruptive Cybersecurity Startups That Are Changing the Industry

Dream It

But this age of disruption has also created numerous opportunities for hackers and cybercriminals. While this is nothing new, Vectra’s proprietary technology is appropriate to today’s business architectures. The startup specializes in detecting unusual activities in networks with huge user bases.

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The Underwhelmingness of Facebook

This is going to be BIG.

Facebook, despite the fact that I use it everyday, is probably the online network I could most easily do without. Despite everything it theoretically knows about me, Facebook ad units disrupt my feed. Facebook used to have network pages where you could explore people you didn''t know. Venture Capital & Technology'

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How Online Video Companies Can Increase Margin and Build Better Businesses

Both Sides of the Table

In my last post I pointed out that many of the media commentators who have criticized the YouTube video network companies as not having strong businesses were mistaken. The best “MCNs” are in fact building strong technology businesses with rapid growth and strong, defensible assets. Europe is roughly the same as the US.

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We’re disrupting TechCrunch Disrupt: 8 stages, 3 days, 1 city

TechCrunch

For founders and investors, there’s no platform like TechCrunch Disrupt. Just as the industry is always evolving and innovating — especially in recent months — we’re doing the same to keep Disrupt on the cutting edge for first-time founders, seasoned investors, visionaries and everybody in between.

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Nigerian fintech Appzone raises $10M for expansion and proprietary technology

TechCrunch

Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. “The focus was to leverage our ability as an enabler to create proprietary technology for both segments.” First, the company says it created the world’s first decentralised payment processing network.