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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

According to the Economist , video game internet traffic, including mobile games, has increased 75% in the U.S. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 Trillion Hours, 218 Billion Downloads – demand for new apps and games still grows globally, up 7% YoY. Immersive ar/vr/xr.

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How The New General Data Protection Regulation Will Affect Online Businesses

YoungUpstarts

On May 25, 2018, the European Union implemented new Internet regulations called the General Data Protection Regulation – GDPR, for short. This includes e-commerce websites that ship internationally, content news sites accessible in the European Union, social networks like Facebook and Instagram, and more. Conclusion.

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Why Your Business Isn’t Immune To Online Threats

YoungUpstarts

You know, increase your Internet immunity with additional protection from today’s current and emerging online threats. For now, the strategy should be simple: To properly safeguard your systems, implement quality defense controls through email and web filtering, and routinely educate your workforce. Social networking and email — 16.8%.

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First Mover Fallacy

Agile VC

If you think back to the monster consumer software and internet companies that’ve been built in the last 2-3 decades, it’s actually far more likely they were fast and/or particularly innovative followers rather than first movers. Facebook (social networking following in the footsteps of Friendster, MySpace, etc).

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China Startups – The Gold Rush and Fire Extinguishers (Part 5 of 5)

Steve Blank

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. Note that the inner ring shows their global equivalents.). business models.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Technology is, like water, flowing and seeping into nearly every sector and eventually into most of the global economy. 4/ Global Trade Wars Are For Real. 1/ Social Network Interference. In 2017, we learned about how social media feeds were used to surface biased or planted information. My goodness, where to begin.

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Web 3.0+: The Hyperconnected Global Internet

thebarefootvc

The title of this blog comes from a presentation I did at last year’s Web 2.0 I overviewed the growth of the global internet and penetration, noting that the future of the Web was going to be driven by emerging countries, as mobile connectivity continues to be more ubiquitous and the West is largely penetrated.

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