For sex workers, an app that provides extra protection!!!

For sex workers, an app that provides extra protection (via Pando Daily)

By Mary Emily O’Hara On September 9, 2013 Recently, Safe IQ, a startup based in Ireland, launched an app aimed at better protecting sex workers in Ireland, the UK, Sweden, and Norway, countries where prostitution is legal. (Canada is next.) The “…

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Will Back Office IT Jobs Disappear?

Will Back Office IT Jobs Disappear? (via Dice News in Tech)

Back office IT jobs in North America and Europe may be in danger of disappearing over the next four years, according to a report by the Hackett Group. The research firm forecasts that nearly half of the 3.1 million such tech jobs in place in 2002 will…

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Meet The European Tech Scene!!

Don’t expand to Europe without talking to Next World Capital first!!!!!!

Don’t expand to Europe without talking to Next World Capital first (via Pando Daily)

By Michael Carney On August 2, 2013 VCs regularly tout the “value added services” that they offer to their portfolio companies. For the most part this typically boils down to hiring, legal, PR, and other traditional professional services that a startup…

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Cyber-savvy Estonia urges EU to rely less on US 'clouds'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Cyber-savvy Estonia urges EU to rely less on US 'clouds' (via AFP)

IT hub Estonia on Wednesday urged the European Union to rely less on US firms for "cloud" data storage, amid tensions over claims of US spying and data surveillance. "Recent months have proven once again that it's very important for Europe to have its…

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