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Always plan to be wrong
You will be wrong. You will make mistakes. You will break things. Systems will fall over and die, with you writhing in agony trying to get that all important demo working for an important customer or investor. This all happened because you changed something last minute – perhaps you were fixing a bug, or adding [...]
Privacy
Privacy – the word that will surely define the next 100 years and how far technology will influence our daily lives. As we go about our daily business, online and offline, more and more data is being collected about us, the large majority of it without our express knowledge. Every time you swipe that card [...]
Intern Life 2: Intern Harder
I can’t believe it has been nearly a month and a half since I walked into the Trustev office. My first encounter with CEO Pat Phelan, where he memorably told me that I belonged more to the ‘accountant crowd upstairs’ because I was wearing a shirt and tie quickly removed any preconceived ideas I had [...]
Trustev takes top prize
Cork Technology Startup Trustev wins first place prize at prestigious technology awards in San Francisco. San Francisco – 15 May 13: Trustev, the Irish startup on a mission to end online fraud, was today announced as overall winner at the Global Technology Leaders Summit, which took place at Microsoft’s Silicon Valley campus. Trustev have previously [...]
The Identity Issue
As more and more services move online and as the Internet becomes a larger part of our day (beyond just looking at cat pictures) you very quickly realise that the ability to properly identity a user’s real world identity is key to the future of the mainstream Internet. Whether it’s shopping or sharing, banking, renting, [...]
Intern Life at Trustev
I’ll be very honest. Working in Trustev is awesome! As part of my B.I.S degree in Cork Institute of Technology, I must complete a six-month placement in a suitable professional workplace. Most of my peers are probably at this very moment in a shirt and tie, working as a number in a huge, already established [...]
The Registration Challenge
User management platform Janrain have launched a great microsite, registrationchallenge.com, to illustrate a growing problem facing online merchants and sites – account fatigue. First, the bad news, as much as you want their data, your users are just sick of creating new accounts. Nearly 86% of people will just go elsewhere when asked to create [...]
Trustev Secures Academy Spot
A new Cork technology startup has received €40,000 and a place at a prestigious mentoring academy. Trustev is the newest addition to O2’s parent company Telefónica’s Wayra Academy- established to promote innovation and encourage new talent in Latin America and Europe- after winning a spot during a fiercely competitive pitching process. Trustev is one of [...]
Trustev secures USD 300,000 to tackle online fraud
Trustev, an Irish provider of “social fingerprinting” technology, has secured USD 300,000 in an angel funding round. The company uses social data from services such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn to provide a layer of verification to ensure that a customer is who they say they are. Online retailers can add the service to their [...]
Cork Start-Up, Trustev, Secures $300k Funding for New Fraud Solution
With a revolutionary approach to combating online fraud Trustev, an Irish tech start-up, have concluded a $300K USD funding round allowing the business to more than double the size of their team. Their new solution makes cleaver use of social data from the major social media platforms (such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+ and Twitter) in order [...]