Month: March 2019

DappRadar: only 28% of active dapp users were on Ethereum blockchain as of January, losing major ground to Tron and EOS, which now leads with 40% of dapp users (Olga Kharif/Bloomberg)

Olga Kharif / Bloomberg: DappRadar: only 28% of active dapp users were on Ethereum blockchain as of January, losing major ground to Tron and EOS, which now leads with 40% of dapp users  —  – EOS, Tron surpass Ethereum in popularity with many developers  — Some startups are now issuing tokens on competing networks DappRadar:

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Fortnite's Creative mode, where players build together instead of battling, has attracted 100M players since its December launch (Matt Weinberger/Business Insider)

Matt Weinberger / Business Insider: Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Fortnite’s Creative mode, where players build together instead of battling, has attracted 100M players since its December launch  —  – Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says that the company has big plans for “Fortnite,” which it sees “evolving beyond being a game.” Epic Games

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Poland fines digital marketing firm Bisnode ~€220K for GDPR violations; Bisnode argues it may cost €8M+ to reach people it can only contact via physical mail (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)

Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch: Poland fines digital marketing firm Bisnode ~€220K for GDPR violations; Bisnode argues it may cost €8M+ to reach people it can only contact via physical mail  —  An interesting decision came out of Poland’s data protection agency this week after the watchdog issued … Poland fines digital marketing firm Bisnode ~€220K

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Facebook announces "Why am I seeing this post?", a feature to help users better understand and control what is seen from friends, Pages, and Groups in News Feed (Ramya Sethuraman/Facebook)

Ramya Sethuraman / Facebook: Facebook announces “Why am I seeing this post?”, a feature to help users better understand and control what is seen from friends, Pages, and Groups in News Feed  —  News Feed is always personalized to you — and starting today you’ll have even more information and control over your experience. Facebook

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Exclusive: Facebook to finally explain the decisions of its news feed algorithm (Laurence Dodds/Telegraph)

Laurence Dodds / Telegraph: Exclusive: Facebook to finally explain the decisions of its news feed algorithm  —  Facebook will finally begin telling its users why posts appear in their news feeds as it seeks to assuage public concerns about the spread of fake news and its influence over billions of people’s reading habits. Exclusive: Facebook

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A profile of payment card services startup Marqeta, which according to a source has doubled its revenue every year since 2016, reaching close to $150M in 2018 (Jeff Kauflin/Forbes)

Jeff Kauflin / Forbes: A profile of payment card services startup Marqeta, which according to a source has doubled its revenue every year since 2016, reaching close to $150M in 2018  —  n the spring of 2015, Jason Gardner, the founder of Marqeta, a payments processor, left a grim board meeting and went for a

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Hackaday Links: March 31, 2019

You can now make flexible circuit boards of unlimited length. Trackwise was contracted out for making a wiring harness for the wing of a UAV and managed to ship a 26 meter long flexible printed circuit board. This is an interesting application of the technology — UAVs are very weight sensitive and wiring harnesses are

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Proxy, a startup that is building a mobile identity layer on top of Bluetooth LE for keyless entry and more, raises $13.6M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins (Josh Constine/TechCrunch)

Josh Constine / TechCrunch: Proxy, a startup that is building a mobile identity layer on top of Bluetooth LE for keyless entry and more, raises $13.6M Series A led by Kleiner Perkins  —  You know how kings used to have trumpeters heralding their arrival wherever they went?  Proxy wants to do that with Bluetooth. Proxy,

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Build Your Own Metal Roller

Metal fabrication is a useful skill to have. There’s plenty you can achieve in your workshop at home, given the right tools. There’s lathes for turning, mills for milling, and bandsaws and dropsaws for chopping it all to pieces. But what do you do if you need to make hoops and bends and round sections?

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10 simple tricks to boosting MRR, the key to a SaaS business

Everybody knows the concept of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business model by now. But what not many might realize is that SaaS business lives or dies by its Monthly Recurring Revenue. MRR is becoming the lifeblood of companies following this unique business model, one that’s only growing in popularity as of late. But why? The SaaS market

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