We polled the Dropsuite team to find out what their top 10 mainstream tech stories were for 2017. Here’s what we came up with.
- Unprecedented raise in cybersecurity attacks globally
Wannacry and Nonpetya ransomware attacks, and Equifax data personal data for 143 million U.S. What’s next? - Bitcoin mania goes mainstream
WSJ bitcoin mania chart.
If You Bought $5 of Bitcoin 7 Years Ago, You’d Be $4.4 Million Richer. - GDPR, data privacy and its ramifications on IT companies
Failure to properly protect a “personal data breach” may result in hefty fines.
WHOIS The First Casualty Of GDPR? - Repeal of Net Neutrality
The Economist explains what may happen to the internet in America. - Russian (bots) infiltrate America
Facebook’s role in the propagation of disinformation.
Russian-linked companies like Kaspersky Lab and Acronis under greater scrutiny. - The rise of machine-learning
Machine-learning is on pace to quickly morph into self-learning and beyond. Dropsuite’s own advanced insights and analytics tools utilize machine-learning to transform business emails into actionable intelligence. - Amazon’s Jeff Bezos becomes richest person in the world
Jeff Bezos’ $90 billion net worth from helming Amazon makes him the world’s richest man — and his $13.7 billion Whole Foods acquisition wasn’t too shabby either. - In Memoriam: Death of AOL Instant Messenger
Okay, this may not be the most important event of 2017, but Dec 15th marked the end of an era for AIM — and a reminder of a time when the Internet was brand new. - #DeleteUber
Scores of customers started deleting their Uber accounts when news story after news story painted the company in an ill light, culminating with the resignation of Uber’s CEO. - The top 5 unstoppable tech companies, now worth more than $3 trillion
The top 5.
Implications.