What To Be Aware About When Naming Your Tech Startup

Starting a business in tech by yourself is a challenging, yet exciting journey. If you have the sense for it, and you are ready to work for your dream, then it might be your call to kick-start your tech empire. There are many steps to take before you reach the finish line, and one of them is naming your company.

 

Be new and unique

An important fact to consider is to be unique in the sense that your name should not be familiar with another company’s name, finding names and domains that are not already in use can be very difficult, which is why many are using business name generators to acquire one.

You can find a great name for your startup company here, to begin the brainstorming process, and to find the perfect name. Here you’ll find a so-called name generator, which can help you name suggestions –

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Bitcoin price falls below $37,000 in tandem with tech selloff

It is becoming a more common occurrence: When stocks fall, so does bitcoin.

Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency by market value, fell below $37,000 Friday to its lowest dollar value since August 2021, according to CoinDesk. It settled at $36,689.39, down 11% from Thursday and down 46% from its record in November 2021.

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The drop came fast on the heels of a late-afternoon swoon in the stock market on Thursday.

Cryptocurrencies and stocks have fallen together since the start of the year, responding to investor worries about how a series of expected Federal Reserve interest-rate increases will ripple through markets.

“Cryptocurrencies are no longer an isolated risk asset and are responding to changes in global policy,” said Clara Medalie, research director at cryptocurrency

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10 Things in Tech You Need to Know Today, Friday, Jan. 7

Happy Friday, readers. Insider has found documents showing that police departments use fake social media accounts during investigations, and BMW just unveiled a color-changing car.

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1. Documents show police departments create fake social media accounts using AI-generated images. An Insider investigation found that despite platforms’ rules against doing so, police departments from New York to Ohio have been trained to create fake Facebook and Instagram accounts to assist in investigations.

  • Documents obtained by Insider describe tools law-enforcement officials can use to create accounts, like a fake name generator, a username generator, and a This Person Does Not Exist tool, which creates images of human faces using AI.
  • In videos posted to social media, the course’s instructor, an active-duty police officer
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How Aerospike Built A Business To Serve The Data-Obsessed Ad Tech Category

As the ad tech industry matures, vendor types historically focused on other markets are expanding to meet its needs.

Media and advertising, for example, is now Snowflake’s biggest business vertical, and payment solutions provider FastPay is helping publishers and ad tech companies manage reconciliation and accounting gaps between when ad campaigns are served and advertisers are paid in full.

But there’s another vendor working behind the scenes to service the ad tech market you might not have heard: real-time data processing and management company Aerospike.

Hitching my star

Aerospike works with server-based or cloud-based businesses, and the company’s main selling point is its ability to store persistent memory in Flash files, meaning that kagillions of cookies and other RTB data points, for instance, can be minimized and ingested without losing data continuity.

Aerospike’s first client in 2010 was AppNexus, followed by a string of other players in the space, including

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An ‘eraser button’: Focused ideas could help bridle Big Tech

Break up Big Tech? How about shrinking the tech companies’ shield against liability in cases where the content they push to users causes harm? Or creating a new regulator to strictly oversee the industry?

Those ideas have captured official attention in the U.S., Europe, U.K. and Australia as controversy has enveloped Facebook — which on Thursday renamed itself Meta — Google, Amazon and other giants. Revelations of deep-seated problems surfaced by former Facebook product manager Frances Haugen, buttressed by a trove of internal company documents, have lent momentum to legislative and regulatory efforts.

But while regulators are still considering major moves such as breaking up some companies or limiting their acquisitions, the most realistic changes may be more tangible and less grandly ambitious. And also the kind of thing people might actually see popping up in their social feeds.

FACEBOOK REBRANDING TO META ‘TERRIFYING’:

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