Boots to Business Reboot is a training program that provides participants with an overview of business ownership as a career vocation, an outline and knowledge of the components of a business plan, a practical exercise in opportunity recognition, and an introduction to available public and private resources. The two-step program facilitates entrepreneurship by giving participants the tools and resources they need to start a business. The first step in the process is an introduction to entrepreneurship, in which veterans of all eras, service members (including National Guard and Reserves) and their spouses are privileged to basic information that can help budding entrepreneurs decide on whether to take the plunge....

Nomad started with just a simple idea for their first product, the ChargeCard. The idea was to have a USB cable on you at all times – one that integrated into your life. It was shaped like a credit card so it could fit in your wallet. The ChargeCard launched on Kickstarter in the summer of 2012 with a goal of $50,000 and successfully raised $161,000. With this initial traction, Nomad the company was born and the team behind the ChargeCard pushed ahead....

Korean company Suprema claims to be a “global powerhouse in biometrics, security, and identity solutions” and sells its services to large companies all over the world including Union co-working spaces in the USA, and London’s Metropolitan police. However, its vast database of fingerprint data, facial recognition data (and images of users), unencrypted usernames, passwords, and real-world home addresses was compromised — potentially exposing the data of people from around the world....

MakerSquare, which also has a campus in San Francisco, will stay independent and start using Hack Reactor’s JavaScript curriculum. Although MakerSquare has said they won’t replace college education anytime soon, they might be changing their tune a bit. MakerSquare even invites students to live in a Dev House, which they call “off-campus housing.” Both schools have 12-week programs, and apparently 99% of Hack Reactor graduates get jobs, with an average starting salary of $105,000....

But the story behind Bootcamps.in isn’t so straightforward. When quality engineer Dmitri Ivanov was rejected at App Academy, he poured himself into research about other programming schools. That research led to a rather disappointing conclusion: he couldn’t afford any of them. (App Academy, in contrast, has no fee but takes a percentage of your salary if you get a job afterward.) So he did the next best thing: he decided to build a website with all that research....

Compared to tobacco e-cigarettes are far more attractive to the consumer too. Where in the US flavoured tobacco was banned in 2013, there are a huge variety of flavours of e-cigarette juice to be had from coffee to strawberry and everything between. This means that the vaper’s breath and clothes smell better and they are far more socially acceptable than cigarettes in some circles these days. The US government has begun a crackdown however, and this could be a real threat to the industry in the country where they first gained popularity only a few years ago....

If your employer offers a HelloWallet membership, you can do your setup on the iPhone – including linking bank and credit card accounts to monitor transactions. If you see a pink, frilly Easter basket you have to have, you can also add “Holiday decorations” as a new budget category within the app. And instead of waiting for the purchase to show up in HelloWallet from your bank account, just manually enter it right away (and it’ll synch up with the bank records later)....

Select Venture Partners is a new investor in the company. Other participants included current investors Blu Ventures and CIT Gap Funds. According to the company, the new funds will allow the company to further accelerate the growth of its service across the Washington, DC area, as well as to help Urgent.ly expand into other markets. The company has raised a total of $1.8 million in financing to date. Urgent.ly offers an unprecedented on-demand roadside assistance service that allows consumers to instantly connect with nearby roadside assistance vehicles in real-time....

Mailchimp disclosed the incident to DigitalOcean, and it believes the attacker compromised its internal tooling, gaining access to DigitalOcean customer email addresses. But, thanks to two-factor authentication, the attacker was unable to progress further. The entire incident demonstrates the dangers of vulnerable business supply chains: Your own business could easily lose its reputation if a service it relies on heavily suffers a cyber attack. What Happened? A Security Vulnerability Timeline On August 8, DigitalOcean noticed that emails sent through Mailchimp weren’t reaching customers: Their account had been suspended....

Center of the World Mentality So, what is this center of the world mentality? It is a combination of the following tenets: “I feel that my app is important, therefore other people will feel it is important.” “I feel that my app is more valuable than other apps, therefore other people will feel the same.” “My friends and family said that my idea is great, therefore it is great.” “I had my friends test my app and they loved it!...

It’s not the first time that Musk has shown his disdain for Facebook, and he’s not alone either. Last week, author Stephen King announced that he was stepping down from the platform, and high profile figures such as Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak have also told the public to stay away. While this outburst is unlikely to keep Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg awake at night, it’s yet another indication that Facebook’s popularity is waning as more question its motives....

In the space of two days, Facebook announced “Shops” and Shopify announced “Balance.” Facebook Shops is a new feature which would let customers buy products from independent retailers without leaving the Facebook, WhatsApp, or Instagram app. Shopify’s Balance, meanwhile, is a new and surprisingly straightforward merchant account which will make setting up an online store even easier. Let’s take a look at the new features and why everyone is ecommerce-obsessed all of a sudden....

While there are hundreds of programs designed to help minorities get established in burgeoning fields, many companies still fail to deliver a diverse workforce. Fortunately, Felecia Hatcher, founder of Code Fever and Black Tech Week, is committed to fueling this needed change. Hatcher is on a mission to rid our communities of innovation deserts by working with community leaders and government officials to create inclusive and diverse startup ecosystems through her work with Code Fever, an initiative connecting minority led startup founders to the resources they need to succeed....

Search without Search Engines Google has been the world’s primary search engine for more than two decades, and while it shows no signs of slowing down, things are certainly changing in the way that people search for things. Last May, Business Insider posted an article about Facebook’s addition of a search engine that would allow users of the social media platform to not only search their friends’ posts, but also trending topics and products....

Behavioral design offers an efficient approach to promoting gender equality in our organizations. Building on insights about how our minds work, behavioral design interventions change the environments and processes we operate in to allow our inherently biased minds to make better decisions and get it right. Plenty of research points us to specific and actionable improvements we can institute in our hiring processes to make them fairer and more effective at attracting the very best talent, regardless of gender....

Among corporate providers offering WiFi to its customers, Starbucks is currently the fastest. Still, it’s less than 10 Mbps. That’s quite a difference, and speaks to the unprecedented ambition of this project. The plan is to place 10,000 pillars throughout the five boroughs of New York City, with 500 to be operational by year’s end. Anyone with objections to city expenditures (of any kind) will be hard-pressed to find an argument in this case, since the project is funded by advertisers....

Discovered just a few weeks ago, the vulnerability – called Log4Shell – garnered swathes of media attention after being dubbed the worst software flaw “possibly in the history of modern computing” by outlets and security experts alike. With the FTC planning to pursue companies that fail to provide adequate protection to consumers, for the sake of both customer and company, it’s of tantamount importance that security provisions are updated. Fining Thoughtless Companies The FTC has made it clear that it will use the full force of the law to ensure that as little consumer data as possible is deleted or stolen via attacks exploiting the Log4J vulnerability....

And Gauss is one of those to put on your radar. The Cologne, Germany-based startup is hoping to become a people magnet for your pocket, built on the inspiration that comes from frustration: By syncing with your Facebook, Twitter, and/or Foursquare account, you’re instantly given a visual array of people in your proximity (see: below). Because the service is new and entering into a competitive space, Andersen is conscious to avoid the empty room effect, “Gauss doesn’t have a user paradox (‘first fax machine’ problem)....

The 28nm chip performs 400 gigahashes per second and consumes less than 1.0 watts per gigahertz. If users wish, they can underclock the GN chip to maximize power saving, or overclock it via on-die thermal controls for maximum performance. HashFast began taking orders for the Baby Jet, which houses the GN chip, at the beginning of August. The company took orders for over 50 percent of its inventory in the first week, and expects the Baby Jet to sell out completely before the end of the month....

The replacement will be Google Chat, and thanks to an automatic redirect, all Google Workspace customers will be on Chat by the end of March, whether they get the memo or not. If this seems like old news to you, that’s because it kinda is: We’ve been discussing this Google migration since October 2019. Finally, the end is in sight. What to Know Across the weeks leading up to March 22, 2022, Google’s activating a “Chat preferred” setting to make Chat the default for all customers across the board....