Urjanet all about bouncing back
For a self-described fallen engineer, Urjanet founder and CEO Sanjoy Malik knows how to bounce back.
The founder of two wireless companies that were sold to Nokia and a private equity firm, Mr. Malik is seeing similar success with Urjanet, a company connecting businesses and software applications to data from thousands of utilities across the globe through a suite of APIs and integration tools.
CEO Sanjoy Malik
Urjanet has relationships with close to 6,000 utilities around the world, Mr. Malik said. That allows Urjanet clients to verify identities and perform detailed credit risk assessments.
Until recently, Utility data had not been used for financial and identity verification because it was hard to aggregate, Mr. Malik said, but when combined with other information it produces reliable results.
Daily Times
May 5, 2021
“A lie told once remains a lie, but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth.” Spoken by none other than Dr. Joseph Goebbels – the propaganda minister during Hitler’s Third Reich.
Are we living in the frightening post-truth era, or can we simply be defined as a post-truth species? According to Yuval Noah Harari in
21 Lessons
(231-244), self-reinforcing myths have been used as a tool to unite human collectiveness, pre-dating the internet age, to as far back as the Stone Age. He goes on to explain how necessary this is for cooperation and how false stories sometimes hold an intrinsic advantage over the truth when it comes to uniting people.
Tim Cook Urged Mark Zuckerberg to Delete User Data From 3rd Party Apps in Private 2019 Meeting
Monday April 26, 2021 4:33 am PDT by Sami Fathi
At a private meeting on the sidelines of an informal gathering of tech and social media executives in July of 2019 in Sun Valley, Idaho, Apple CEO Tim Cook urged Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg to delete all user information his company has collected from third-party apps, according to
According to the Times, the executives met annually at the conference organized by investment bank Allen & Company to catch up and attempt to repair their fraying relationship.
In particular, this meeting in the summer of 2019 came as Facebook was embroiled in a massive scandal involving Cambridge Analytica. Facebook had come under intense scrutiny for sharing the information of more than 50 million users, without their consent, with voter-profiling firm Cambridge Analytica to use for political ads during the 2016 Presidental election.
It s been nearly two years since Facebook launched its ill-fated Libra cryptocurrency effort.
Since then, the popularity and acceptance of cryptocurrencies has soared.
But while the world has left Libra for dead, Facebook has not given up on its crypto dreams.
In June, 2019, Facebook unveiled plans to create a digital currency called Libra that, once released the next year, would be pegged to hard currencies including the US dollar. As Facebook spun things, Libra would be a democratizing force, a salve for the unbanked, the tech giant s benevolent gift to the world.
It was a sound-and-fury announcement greeted with attendant shock and awe: by cryptocurrency advocates who had dreamt of such a powerhouse getting behind their cause; by established payments players and their merchant customers excited by the convenience of non-government-controlled money transfers; and, less enthusiastically, by governments themselves, chagrined by the notion that Facebook might usurp their autho