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Nordic Startup Awards highlights region as alternative to Silicon Valley for tech

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On Wednesday October 18, Nordic Startup Awards held its Grand Finale in Stockholm, Sweden, an event honoring the Nordic region's...

Technology

Own a smartphone or tablet? Then you’ll have to pay the TV license fee in Sweden

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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As other EU countries look on, smartphone and tablet users in Sweden, who don't own a TV, will have to pay the country's national TV license from today

Entertainment

Spotify silently launches in its 16th territory, Ireland, as it looks to South America & Eastern Europe

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Spotify has officially launched in its 16th country, Ireland; binging the service to over 661 million users around the world.

World Wide Web Foundation Web Index infographic

Web

Which country’s citizens benefit the most from the web? #infographic

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Is your country winning at the web? This infographic describes The Web Foundation's latest Web Index report which looked at the impact of the web on social, political and economic issues.

Web

Report: The West benefits most from the web but more data is needed

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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In spite of the Arab Spring and other factors the web is having the greatest impact in Europe, North America, Australia, and New Zealand, according to data released by The Web Foundation.

Technology

Netflix’s Nordic launch is only a few months away

Piers Dillon Scott10 years ago

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Nexflix will launch in Norway, Denmark, Sweden, and Finland by the end of 2012 but won't be called on an official release data just yet.

Web

UK ISPs forced to censor access to The Pirate Bay

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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The UK High Court has today ruled that internet service providers (ISPs) operating in the UK must censor access to file sharing site The Pirate Bay.

Highly accurate water body data in Finland

Web

Google improves Maps for the UK, Germany, Finland and Sweden

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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Google has today announced improved Maps for the United Kingdom, Germany, Finland and Sweden, including improved water bodies and local park coverage.

Siri has greatly boosted iPhone 4S sales

Mobile

iPhone 4S pre-orders go live in 22 additional countries, including Ireland

Darren McCarra11 years ago

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The iPhone 4S is now available to pre-order in 22 additional countries, including Ireland, ahead of its second-phase launch on October 28th.

Technology

What happened in Chernobyl’s nuclear reactor 25 years ago?

Piers Dillon Scott12 years ago

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This year marks the 25th anniversary of world's worst nuclear disaster. In the early hours of April 26 1986 a series of explosions and a resulting chemical fire released large amounts of nuclear matter into the atmosphere over of much of Europe from Chernobyl's number 4 reactor.

Brains Byte Back

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One week before the pandemic hit, unaware of what was about to take place worldwide, Taylor Hersom quit his job as a Chief Information Security Officer for a local firm in Austin, Texas in the hopes of finding a similar position elsewhere.

Between working at Deloitte where he advised Fortune 500 companies on compliance and security tactics, and his more recent position at the local firm, Hersom didn’t anticipate finding a new job to be a difficult feat.

However, as the pandemic set in, his interview offers dried up, and he turned to UpWork in pursuit of a job. In the beginning, he applied for as many posts as he could find in order to build up his review score.

He began taking on clients and quickly realized that startups needed a lot of help with security and compliance, and he knew this could become a genuine business for him. But what he didn’t realize was just how in demand his services would be.

As time went on, Hersom moved away from UpWork and took on staff to build a team in order to meet demand. Shortly after this, on January 1, 2021, his new company Eden Data was born.

In today’s episode of the Brains Byte Back podcast, Hersom, CEO and Founder of Eden Data, shares how the team has grown in such a short period of time by taking a positive approach to security instead of the traditional fear-based approach.

In other words, instead of securing customers using fears tactics such as telling prospects if they get hacked they will be fined, receive bad PR, or be hated, Hersom advocates that strong security can show prospects that you care about them and their data, which can successfully close more deals.

Hersom also shares how their subscription approach to security and compliance has helped them stand out in this market, allowing them to scale alongside the startups they work with.