Monty Munford
Forbes
United Kingdom
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Global SMEs Set To Benefit From Blockchain-Based Financial Services Marketplace
Bright, a blockchain-based financial service marketplace founded by AMPP Group, is on a mission to assist small- and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) in emerging markets by providing credit and loans where they need it most. → Read More
Apple's Steve Wozniak Dumps Facebook And Thinks Ethereum Could Be The New Apple
Steve Wozniak only holds one bitcoin and two Ether, but he believes that Ethereum as a platform may emulate the success of Apple. → Read More
Messaging Apps: Q&A With Djamel Agaoua, CEO Of Viber
Somewhat under the radar, In 2018, messaging app Viber registered one billion users. Its CEO Djamel Agaoua speaks exclusively to Forbes about the future for Viber in a rapidly converging market. → Read More
Bank of England Makes TransferWise The First Non-Bank To Become Member Of Faster Payments
TransferWise is first non-bank to become direct member of Faster Payments, enabled by new access to Bank of England settlement account → Read More
Five Female Rock Stars Leading the Crypto Scene in 2018
In light of the upcoming International Women’s Day on March 8th, it’s time to highlight and celebrate successful female leaders who are taking charge of technological developments in the crypto space. → Read More
Volkswagen's Chief Digital Officer Joins Blockchain Non-Profit Iota Foundation
Johann Jungwirth,Volkswagen CDO joins the Supervisory Board of the Iota Foundation - one of the largest cryptocurrencies in the world, to oversee the Foundation’s annual roadmap and advise on future collaboration between Iota and Volkswagen → Read More
Robert Bosch Venture Capital Makes First Investment In Distributed Ledger Technology
Robert Bosch VC has made its first foray into distributed ledger technology with a purchase of IOTA tokens to support creation of new business models for IoT. → Read More
We need to fix the broken model of geolocation data
After its release in 1982, it took 35 years for a Blade Runner sequel to hit screens. The original flopped on release, only to be adopted as a cult movie, and it looks like that might have to happen again. → Read More
Smart Home security is crap, so why are users getting the blame?
Another day, another cybersecurity hack, and this week it was Virgin Media’s Super Hub 2 home router that got hit here in the UK. Was is it a sophisticated hack? No, far from it: Virgin’s routers come with a short, easy-to-hack default password that was duly cracked, and the so-called Smart Home was suddenly not a very safe home at all. → Read More
The Insurance Industry Is Dead... Long Live the Insurance Industry
LIke banking and accountancy, the centuries-old insurance industry is being disrupted far and wide. However in the UK, maybe disruption should be replaced by co-operation with medium-sized existing companies offering the best of worlds. → Read More
Tech Conferences Are Plentiful, But WordPress Conferences Are Perfectly Placed
With more than 53,000 meetups and conferences in Europe every year, attendees are spoilt for choice. For the WordPress community, however, events right now are perfectly formed. → Read More
Moonlighting Takes The Gig Economy To The Next Freelancing Level
Moonlighting is democratizing freelancing and commerce through its mobile-based platform that powers the Gig Economy 2.0. It allows the open market to dictate freelancer success. Real-time job opportunities and commerce transactions are promoted via the app and large digital publishers. → Read More
The Refugee First Response Center Is Using Technology To Save Lives in Europe
The Refugee First Response Center is a container where doctors can work with interpreters to conduct operations. The organisers hope to have a line of these containers across Europe from Lebanon's Beqaa Valley to Germany. → Read More
In 2017 TripScout Will Make Travel Easier But Just As Exciting
The proliferation of travel apps means that real travel experiences are lost under the heap of technology. TripScout is a paid-for app that brings those experiences back into the real world and rediscovers the lost art of travel. → Read More
How WordPress Ate The Internet in 2016... And The World in 2017
More than 25% of the world's websites are run by WordPress. What was once a simple platform for bloggers has become a platform and CMS for some of the world's biggest publisher and brands... and it shows no sign of stopping. → Read More
Steve Wozniak Went To Beirut And Wowed 8,000 People
Apple's Steve Wozniak may have been the quiet genius behind the marketing acumen and genius of Steve Jobs, but he can still pull a crowd and inspire a younger generation how to build and scale companies. → Read More
Like Coachella, TechStars Music Will Shake Up The Music Industry
For two weekends earlier this month, the music industry was shaken yet again. Over three nights, six of the world's biggest acts played at a polo club in Coachella, a venue close to the the desert aquifer of California's Palm Springs. When Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney, Neil Young, The [...] → Read More
Skills Shortage Means Salaries Soar As US Cities Vie For Cybersecurity Talent
The notion of a job for life appeared to have withered away from contemporary existence as surely as Luddites were ejected from the workforce in the early 19th Century. The ongoing rise of automation, machine learning and the so-called march of the robots meant that humans could not rely on a lifelong [...] → Read More
Chinese Consortium Acquires Media.Net For $900 Million In Third-Largest Ever AdTech Deal
AdTech pioneer Media.net, has been acquired by a Chinese consortium from serial internet entrepreneur Divyank Turakhia's Starbuster TMT Investments in an all-cash transaction of $900 million. The Consortium is led by Zhiyong Zhang, Chairman of Beijing Miteno Communication Technology, a technology, media and telecom (TMT) business listed on the GEM Board [...] → Read More
Snapchat and Lyft win SXSW, but there were hundreds of other successes
This year saw the 30th anniversary of the influential South by Southwest (SXSW) digital festival in Austin, Texas, and in those three decades the world has undoubtedly been changed by things that have happened there. There are music and film aspects of the festival, but SXSW Interactive is the focus of this article, concentrating on technology and what the future possibly brings. In Austin,… → Read More