Twice in his recent discussion with MPD CEO Karen Webster, Peter Kwakernaak, the CEO of AcceptEmail, compared his company to Apple. Not that he was saying they were one and the same, mind you. Rather, Kwakernaak drew the comparison as an example of what he...
Since the beginning of 2015, there have been over 20 major data breaches logged in the United States; Anthem, the Mandarin Hotel and Chick-fil-A are three of the biggest, but it seems that the international cybercriminal community is determined to surpass 2014 in its efforts to illegally harvest data from...
A psychologist, a criminologist and a biologist walk in to a cybersecurity firm reads at first like the setup of an extremely conceptual joke. It is not. It is, however, actually how Israeli cybersecurity firm Forter is building a next generation platform to outthink an...
In 1640, the English poet John Donne famously wrote in meditation 17 “No man is island.” Given the contemporary limitations of travel and communications in the 17th century, that was clearly intended as a metaphorical explanation of the nature of humanity, rather than any...
“The unexpected tragedy of our financial system is that the less money you have, the more expensive it is to send money around.” Those are the words of Joyce Kim, executive director of the Stellar Development Foundation, a small non-profit with a big goal: to...
In 1985, bright colors and shoulder pads were the height of fashion, the perm was the nation’s most popular hairstyle, and WHAM was behind the No. 1 and No. 3 most popular songs of the year (Madonna’s “Like A Virgin” broke up the WHAM party at...
Mozido is on a roll. In December 2014, the cloud platform mobile payments and retail engagement solutions provider made the significant acquisition of CorFire. And last week, (Feb. 10), it announced that it had acquired PayEase. Although Mozido’s Founder and Chairman of Global Strategic Initiatives, Michael...
There’s an old joke, told in many forms where one person asks for directions to a famous place, followed by the wrong type of direction. “How do you get to Radio City Music Hall?” “Practice.” “How do you get to Harvard?” “Study.” And while we...