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Could Regulation Prevent The Next Cyberattack?

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The ransomware attack affected a range of players, including delivery services like FedEx, automakers including Renault and Nissan, transportation operations such as Germany’s Deutsche Bahn and even medical systems such as the U.K.’s To date, more than $80,000 in bitcoin payments have been made so users could access their files again.

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From Alibaba to Zynga: 21 Of The Best VC Bets Of All Time And What We Can Learn From Them

CB Insights

Thiel became an outside board member with his $500K seed investment in Facebook in 2004. At the time, Facebook had what Thiel called “a very reasonable valuation” and about a million users. Later, the retail giant sold its entire e-commerce operations in China to JD.com. When Snap Inc. Walmart participated in a $1.5B

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We Analyzed 9 Of The Biggest Direct-to-Consumer Success Stories To Figure Out The Secrets to Their Growth — Here’s What We Learned

CB Insights

How Glossier’s skin tone matcher drives online conversions. In 2004, Wired editor Chris Anderson first began writing about how the internet would change this. Today, the world’s dominant retailers are all online. Harry’s, on the other hand, did it purely online. The long-tail playbook has won.

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