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Uber Of X: Bannerman, Uber of Security Guards

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Safety may come first, but the security guard industry hasn’t really been updated in decades. As an “Uber of X” company, San Francisco–based Bannerman pairs security guards with businesses in high-rise buildings seeking protection. Security guards today rely very much on pen and paper and phone tag. Absolutely.

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Bitcoin Tracker: Bitcoin Black Friday

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Switzerland gives bitcoin a hand by way of rail ticket machine sales, an Australian startup banks on the aptly named Dash and Zcash fervor fades. Meanwhile, in Australia, bitcoin competitor Dash has been integrated into cryptocurrency startup company Living Room of Satoshi.

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Artificial Intelligence Seeks Real Shoppers

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Apple kicked things off this year, announcing back in January that it had purchased Emotient, an AI tech startup in the facial recognition business. A security application? In fact, the very term “structured data” connotes less of an association with science fiction and more with something like … factual math.

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How Biometrics Could Help Provision Identity

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In other words, some of their identity attributes can help them attain housing, a job or credit – but that identity might not be very good: That is, it might be bad data, inaccurate data or data filled with bad math. As a result, 3.5

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 The Amazon/Walmart Whole Paycheck Tracker: Rethinking And Realigning

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It is a complicated question — and one greatly dependent on how exactly one lays out the math. delivery startup that raised $575 million in funding. New To The Market: A Secure Credit Card And A Sneak Peak Theatrical Release. Jetblack, according to reports , comes care of Walmart’s internal startup incubator Store No.

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Barry Ritholtz

And so the thing we were doing was sort of solving like often securities law or tax or accounting problems for people with like derivatives. So like a component of it was like the standard derivatives math, right? And so like, you know, I got there and I learned derivatives math, right? Everything is securities fraud.

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Most Platforms Can’t Scale, Will Fail

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It’s secure, it’s cheap, it’s faster than a speeding bullet. Is it a stealth startup from Silicon Valley? Many of the most dynamic public companies, from Alibaba to Visa, and many of the most valuable startups, like Uber, are multisided platforms. The Next Big Fizzle: Blockchain Startups.