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June 4, 2019
Security awareness training addresses the most prevalent cause of cyber security breaches: human error As we all know, data breaches continue to make headlines around the world. But did you know that: Yahoo holds the record for the largest data breach ever with 3 billion accounts compromised. An insider attack cost Boeing $2 billion and…
April 26, 2019
As this is the first issue of Q for calendar 2019, we thought it would make sense to provide an update on the latest investment activities being reported around the world. Combining a number of sources, we offer the following picture. The Global View PWC and CB Insights released their MoneyTree Report earlier this year,…
April 26, 2019
The Celtic Manor Resort has once again been named the Best Hotel in the UK at the prestigious Meetings and Incentive Travel Awards gala in London. The five-star venue in South Wales regained the Gold Award and has now been voted the Best Hotel eight times in the last nine years! Confirming its position as…
April 26, 2019
A member company of the Alacrity Turkey start-up fund, Segmentify has developed technology to deliver personalized, relevant suggestions and recommendations to ecommerce customers through multiple marketing channels including personalized push notifications and emails. The purpose is to enable client businesses to increase online sales, customer loyalty and repeat purchases. The company continues to evolve its…
April 26, 2019
Alacrité (France) is located in LILLE, a commercial and industrial city 200 kilometers North of Paris. During the Quarter, the fund housed four project teams (teams working on their first business/product ideas) as well as two newly-incorporated start-ups. Called ReactEvent and Diskyver, the two new companies have been incubated in the Alacrité program over the…
April 26, 2019
English Ninjas, one of the Turkey-based Alacrity companies, has created an online portal and mobile application for acquiring one-on-one English-language teaching services. Customers speak with and learn from trained tutors at any time, from anywhere. It is an innovative approach to the English-asa- second-language education market, using a model similar to that now deployed worldwide…
April 26, 2019
2018 was the busiest year to date for UK-based Enjovia, whose SaaS platform enables businesses to sell more gift vouchers. And the industry continues to change and expand, which bodes well for continued company growth. The results are being propelled by the expansion of the ‘experience economy’. Particularly in western countries, consumers are hitting what…
April 23, 2019
Burgeoning and Evolving Wireless Spectrum Needs Evolving Protection The rise of wireless and mobile technologies has transformed the way we communicate and work. Within the next 3 years experts predict there will be over 29 billion connected devices. Much of this is enabled by the wireless spectrum and the technologies that exploit this spectrum. Billions…
March 27, 2019
L-SPARK, Canada’s leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) accelerator, and TELUS have partnered to launch the Secure IoT Accelerator program in collaboration with BlackBerry Limited and Solace The Secure IoT Accelerator program is intended to enable Canadian Internet of Things (IoT) ventures by providing them with global market reach capability with a Secure by Design technology. With the…
February 27, 2019
Tutela collects data from millions of devices worldwide to power business decisions As seen at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week, mobile smart phone usage continues to grow at incredible speed. But at what rate? A recent report predicts that “mobile Internet traffic will reach nearly a Zettabyte of data annually by 2022”. That…
