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Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them? 1 - Apple, Microsoft, and Google want you to go password-less. Apple, Google, and Microsoft recently announced that they will soon employ technology from the FIDO (Fast Identity Online) Alliance to make it possible for users to work across websites and apps by logging into a single website in Chrome from their PC using an iPhone. Users will use facial recognition, passcode, or fingerprint ID to register their identity through their smartphone. Once users confirm their identity on their phones, it’s there for good. (Source: Yahoo Finance ) Why this is important for your business: One of the biggest trends business owners will see over the next couple of years will be the death of passwords. Easily hacked and poorly administered, passwords have always been a lousyt way to secure data. The … [Read more...] about Apple, Microsoft And Google Are Killing Passwords…And Other Small Business Tech News This Week

Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz, head of Austrian People’s Party, and his girlfriend Susanne Thier arrive at the polling station to casts their vote in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 15, 2017, when about 6.4 million people are eligible to vote in the national elections. AP VIENNA, Austria — Austria’s 31-year-old foreign minister declared victory for his party Sunday in a national election that set him up to become Europe’s youngest leader and puts the country on course for a rightward turn. Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz claimed the win as final results announced by the Interior Ministry showed his People’s Party had a comfortable lead with almost all the ballots counted. Noting that his center-right party had triumphed over the rival Social Democrats only twice since the end of World War II, Kurz called it a “historic victory.” “Today is not the day of triumph over others, but today is our chance for real change in this country,” he told cheering supporters. Still to be … [Read more...] about Austria takes likely right turn; young leader leads polls

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Alex Konanykhin is a brave soul. He started a cryptocurrency project at the start of a war in Ukraine, decades-high inflation in the U.S. and Europe, Fed monetary tightening, and the potential for food shortages driving up commodity prices. He seems to have anticipated the meltdown of the traditional coins as his February 23 press release touts Unicoin as the “solution to the high volatility of cryptocoins.” His idea stems from a notion popularized by Warren Buffet, a famous Bitcoin BTC bear, who said that cryptocurrency has no value because it isn’t backed by anything. Cryptocurrencies are not backed by the good faith and credit of a nation, let alone the start-up founders or their venture capitalist investors. It isn’t backed by hard assets either. It’s not like Dogecoin DOGE is backed by Shiba Inu SHIB dog breeders or anything – less dogs, higher Doge. It’s literally a joke coin worth tens of billions … [Read more...] about Brave Souls: ‘Unicorn’ Crypto Project Ties Value To Equity In Emerging Growth Companies