Looker & GDPR | Google Cloud To Buy Data Analytics Startup for $2.6B

Looker + Google Cloud

Google to buy analytics software firm Looker for $2.6 billion in cash.

The Looker Platform for Data "delivers insights to user workflows, allowing organizations to extract value from data." Looker's headquarters: Santa Cruz, California.

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Looker & GDPR: Data in the Age of GDPR

Looker video above published May 30, 2019: One year on, and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - one of the most comprehensive reforms to data regulation in recent times - continues to impact how companies approach their strategies for external data protections and internal data access and usage. The video on GDPR, data protection and privacy, covers:

• Data Governance: Understanding the people, processes, and technology required to create consistent and proper handling of data across the organisation.
• Data Centralization: Facilitating a more easily documentable data supply chain for GDPR compliance.
• Monitoring Data and Auditing: Determining who has access to personal data, why the data has been collected and how it will be used by your organisation.

GDPR Whitepaper: looker.com/gdprpaper

Looker Customer Stories: Data Around the World

From San Francisco to Berlin and beyond, data is evolving the way businesses operate and innovate. See how companies from Deliveroo, Stack Overflow and Kiva are using Looker to operationalize and scale their business data. Looker video above published Jan 15, 2019. Learn more about other companies data stories at looker.com/customers.
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Bitcoin & Cryptocurrencies - Looking Beyond The Hype (BIS video)

Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype

The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) (domain: BIS.org) video above published Jun 17, 2018: Hyun Song Shin speaks about Chapter V of the Annual Economic Report 2018 (full embed below). Cryptocurrencies' decentralized model of generating trust limits their potential to replace conventional money, the chapter argues.

Abstract: "Cryptocurrencies promise to replace trusted institutions with distributed ledger technology. Yet, looking beyond the hype, it is hard to identify a specific economic problem which they currently solve. Transactions are slow and costly, prone to congestion, and cannot scale with demand. The decentralized consensus behind the technology is also fragile and consumes vast amounts of energy. Still, distributed ledger technology could have promise in other applications. Policy responses need to prevent abuses while allowing further experimentation."

Cryptocurrencies: looking beyond the hype: BIS Annual Economic Report  |  17 June 2018, PDF full text (452kb)  |  24 pages embed below:

Despite the hype, #cryptocurrencies like #bitcoin are not the answer to the increasing need for #DigitalPayments because of their volatile value ...1/4 https://t.co/Z9f5mBLrhK pic.twitter.com/JfMB8faFev

— Bank for Intl Settl. (@BIS_org) June 17, 2018

… cryptocurrencies lack scalability to handle the economy’s transaction needs …. 2/4 https://t.co/Z9f5mBLrhK pic.twitter.com/9JwSBIVhfH

— Bank for Intl Settl. (@BIS_org) June 17, 2018

… payments made with #cryptocurrencies are never fully final because of possible rewriting of history through episodes of #forking … 3/4 https://t.co/Z9f5mBLrhK pic.twitter.com/sntmMlwlLq

— Bank for Intl Settl. (@BIS_org) June 17, 2018

… but the underlying distributed ledger technology just might be applied in finance, for instance in trade finance #DLT #Blockchain #TradeFinance 4/4 https://t.co/Z9f5mBLrhK pic.twitter.com/fi9RrhRn1j

— Bank for Intl Settl. (@BIS_org) June 17, 2018

The Bank for International Settlements, founded May 17, 1930, is an international financial institution owned by 60 of the world's central banks which "fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks." The BIS provides banking services, but only to central banks and other international organizations. It is based in Basel, Switzerland, with representative offices in Hong Kong and Mexico City.

See also: The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS | Reuters.com.

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Gigaom, Venture Capital, Golden Handcuffs, And The Valley of Death

Good interview of Mathew Ingram, about the shutdown of Gigaom, in the Columbia Journalism Review (excerpt below) and the dangers of media companies, startups, and others, taking venture capital money--it's not always the smartest move--

Christopher Massie, CJR: One reason this is so strange is that Gigaom seemed like it was doing so well. What should the takeaway be for other media outlets? 

Mathew Ingram: "Everyone has their own favorite lesson. Danny Sullivan at Search Engine Land talked about what this says about taking [venture capital] money when you’re a media company. And that’s part of the story. Gigaom has been VC-financed from the beginning. Other media startups were not. And when you take venture capital money they’re golden handcuffs, in a way. It’s a Faustian bargain. You make certain promises about your growth, and if that growth doesn’t materialize then VCs lose interest and your company fails... The model that Danny and others have chosen is to grow slowly and to be funded only by your cash flow. And that’s a much safer model—there’s no question about it. The only problem is it takes a lot longer. And you frequently don’t build as big a business... If you are super small and super focused and super niche you can succeed, arguably. And if you’re super huge and mass and gigantic and growing quickly, you can succeed. But in the middle, is death. The valley of death. So arguably we got caught in that valley of death...." (read more at the link above)


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