While many areas of the economy are set to reopen in the coming weeks — if they're not already — most startups never actually closed. Tucked away in houses and apartments across the country, founders have been not only focused on running their businesses, but also on securing capital to boost growth once the economy has normalized.
For the most part, the fundraising marketplace has remained open (for a deep dive into VC behavior over the last two months go here). But the last two weeks could be establishing a new normal for fundraising this year that should make founders optimistic. Even though most VCs aren't taking in-person meetings, and there are still a lot of questions about what our economy will look like in the coming months, VCs are more active this month than they were in May of both 2019 and 2018.
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'Believe Marketplace' offers businesses outdoor option - Salisbury Independent
Delmarva Veteran Builders owner Chris Eccleston found himself with a 1,600-square-foot tented pavilion purchased for a project that fell through because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The tent, now erected in the Delmarva Veteran Builders parking lot and named "Believe Marketplace," is available free of charge to local businesses and nonprofits that want to operate outdoors, which is considered safer in the era of social distancing than enclosed spaces.
3 Ways to Protect Yourself on Marketplace Platforms - CPO Magazine
Given that most mobile apps use your phone number to enable the log-in process, fraudsters are well-equipped to find and use disabled phone numbers to access platforms that may host payment information, PII, and other valuable data.
Authenticator apps also provide an added layer of protection if a bad actor succeeds in socially engineering their way into your mobile provider. When this happens, the hacker can have a new SIM issued to them, effectively giving them total control over any apps that you've accessed on your mobile device.
Black founders want tech companies to do more than donate - Marketplace
Jim Gibbs: We need to have a success story at the end of the day. And the only way we’re going to have a success story is if we have opportunities. The only way we’ll have an opportunity is for people to either a) hire us or b) for the entrepreneur, wire the check. It’s substantially more difficult to get folks to understand that it is indeed that easy.
Molly Wood: I’ve been covering the tech industry for a long time. Obviously, even the protests are like a deeply infuriating repeat of a thing that we keep seeing. We also keep seeing the tech industry not get better. I mean, is it just willful?
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G Suite Marketplace primed for a privacy scandal, researchers warn | ZDNet
The research, carried out by Irwin Reyes and Michael Lack of Two Six Labs, analyzed the permissions requested by third-party Google apps listed on the G Suite Marketplace.
The duo said they found that of the 1,392 apps they tested, 405 failed with various errors. Of the 987 apps that could be installed, the researchers said that 889 apps required access to user data via Google APIs, and hence, triggered a permission request.
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Of these 889, almost half (49%), accounting for 481 apps, requested permission to communicate with external services, creating a bridge between a user's sensitive Drive and Gmail data and the outside world.
Things to keep in mind when downloading apps from G Suite Marketplace - Help Net Security
Security researchers have tested nearly 1,000 enterprise apps offered on Google’s G Suite Marketplace and discovered that many ask for permission to access to user data via Google APIs as well as to communicate with (sometimes undisclosed) external services.
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“The request to ‘Connect to an external service’ is notable, as it indicates apps can communicate with other online APIs that neither Google nor the app developer might not control,” they pointed out.
Facing another month of costs in the coronavirus economy - Marketplace
Oliver was set to start a job at an environmental consulting firm in Boseman, Montana, when the crisis hit. Her offer was delayed because of the coronavirus, but she started working in May and is now moving to full-time.
“It’s definitely been a roller coaster,” Oliver said. “Even two months ago, I felt so despondent and hopeless. I thought that surely I’d stay unemployed for the rest of the year.”
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Barillas, a waitress and barista in Brooklyn, New York, has been out of work since mid-March, when her restaurant closed. It has since reopened for takeout, but she hasn’t been called back in to work.
Gun stock prices and background checks are surging - Marketplace
Investment in firearms companies is on the rise. The stock price of, for instance, Sturm, Ruger & Co. , was up 14% for the week heading into Wednesday’s market open. That stock is up more than 35% over the last three months.
Beyond the stock market bet, background checks for new firearms are way up, too. Marketplace's Nova Safo has the story.
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Nova Safo : Not exactly. What we know for certain is background checks at licensed gun dealers are up for the third month in a row, and they're up a lot — 75% in May alone on a year-over-year basis. April and March had similar spikes.
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Share with people that there are ways we each can act: •Advocacy (letters, calls, petitions) •Economic withdrawal… https://t.co/7mPiUqMMvO BerniceKing (from Atlanta, GA) Wed Jun 03 15:17:21 +0000 2020
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