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Entering the massive beehive of Lisbon’s 70,000-strong Web Summit, we quickly grasped the attractions of Europe’s biggest tech conference. You could feel the local pulse of innovation. Absorb the buzz of the hottest new trends. Converse directly with Portuguese movers…
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It’s Thursday night in Lisbon’s bustling Chiado district, revelers packed into an old stone courtyard, festooned with a string of lights, doing what Lisboetas do so well, leaning in early to start the weekend. Bright Pixel, a hot local company…
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“We will never be secure until security is on everybody’s mind,” declared Mårten Mickos, the Finnish-born CEO of HackerOne. “With cybersecurity, we must be open and sharing and collaborative, and then it will work.” Willem Jonker, CEO of EU-backed EIT…
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The establishment has newly declared that California is dead. As in, Silicon Valley and San Francisco. Normally the New York Times performs this decapitation, with glee, long having believed that NYC and points east are the center of the universe….
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