Tech Tips

Google Merchant Security Woes

We were greeted the other morning by a forwarded Google email from a ecommerce merchant, with the subject “Suspension Warning of Your Merchant Center Account”.

It stated they were in violation of not having an available landing pages for products.  We checked the system and all of the landing pages were working and everything was working.

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Coronavirus Will Accelerate World Wide Adoption of Automation Technologies

As part of our new service offerings in regards to startup scouting and technology assessments (Tech Matchmaker), we continuously keep our eyes on technology trends and re-access our positions almost daily.

One trend we have been following closely for the while is with robotic automation of a variety of services ranging from burger flipping to warehouse fulfillment robots. We firmly believed that this trend will continue to accelerate with the onset of lower cost robotics and minimum wage pressures, but mother nature decided to intervene.

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Setting up Incapsula on a Sub-Domain in Route 53

We had an instance where we wanted to host an application over Incapsula, that was on a sub-domain (ie: portal.domain.com).

The DNS hosting was done completely in Amazon Route53. The procedure to get it setup was a bit tricky, since Incapsula only provides you a CNAME record if you are just hosting a sub-domain. Since hosted sub-domain record sets cannot contain root CNAMEs (portal.domain.com), there is a bit of a dns shuffle that needs to occur to getting this to work.

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