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Fools Rush In: 37 Of The Worst Corporate M&A Flops

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Zynga, creator of Facebook games Farmville, Mafia Wars, and about a dozen different types of online slot machine games, paid $210M in 2012 for OMGPOP, creators of DrawSomething!, When mobile phone company Danger Inc was created in the heady days of 2000 with execs from Apple, Phillips, and WebTV, it looked like a leadership dream team.

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Autopsy Report: 9 Startup Failure Stories And What We Can Learn From Them

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Theranos was founded in 2003 by Elizabeth Holmes, then an undergraduate student at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. To some, Silicon Valley startup culture was as much to blame for Theranos’ failure as the company’s leadership. The rise and fall of Theranos. Takeaways & lessons. The rise and fall of Pets.com.

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CFPB Head Faces Privacy Questions From Senate

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Senate hearing, further proof that issues related to online security and privacy are increasingly a topic that has the attention of lawmakers and regulators, and not just in the U.S. Maxine Waters argued the Trump-appointed leadership is trying to undermine the agency’s mission. Privacy Questions.

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