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MAY 1, 2024

Gentle Monster Background Founded in 2011 by Kim, Gentle Monster initially struggled to break through against large brands like Luxottica which controls an estimated 30% of the US market, and is behind almost every single designer eyeglass brand you can think of, including Ray-Ban, Oakley, Armani, Ralph Lauren, Chanel, Prada and many more.

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JUNE 3, 2016

These days, retail merchants must reach customers, both in-store and online, securely and conveniently. Now that merchants are more responsible for fraud that happens in their stores, he said, “it’s our responsibility to teach them about these tools, like EMV, that can secure them and secure their businesses.

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DECEMBER 19, 2017

Rainbolt has quietly built a community bank in the past 20 years that is closing in on $2 billion of market cap. For 35 years, Wilmers led M&T with creativity, integrity and the “old-school” wisdom of a community banker who created a $26 billion market cap company. GonzoBanker of the Year – Large Banks. At a banking conference.

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JULY 2, 2019

And yet, Blaze Pizza , founded by Elise and Rick Wetzel in 2011 has managed to do so. From the very first restaurants we opened, we had this vision that we were going to grow it to a thousand,” Elise Wetzel, the company’s chief marketing officer, told INC.

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CB Insights

JUNE 6, 2019

Declared Bankruptcy: 2011. By December 2011, it was under $30/kg. By September 2011, Solyndra’s business model had fallen apart. After evaluating the vehicle, the EPA gave The Coda a fuel economy equivalence of 73 miles per gallon, the highest of any electric vehicle on the market in 2012. Dart Music. Founded: 2005.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Today, Instagram is one of the more popular social media platforms. Owned by Facebook, the image- and video-sharing service is worth an estimated $100B, boasts 1 billion users, and has spawned a new class of marketing careers for savvy users. His company, Tiny Speck, began developing a game called Glitch.

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MARCH 6, 2019

A lawsuit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission followed, with Holmes agreeing in a settlement to return millions of shares, pay a $500,000 fine, and refrain from being an officer or director of a public company for 10 years. That July, it banned Holmes from owning or operating a lab for two years. Total funding : $161M. in revenue.

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MARCH 28, 2017

To measure “power”, Planet Compliance used an algorithm that measured a company’s activity in the media, as well as online and in social media including Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Wikipedia. Market capitalization of $5.63 Founded in 2011. Founded in 2011. Founded in 2011.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

As of this writing in mid-November 2017, the total market capitalization of cryptocurrencies hovers around $220B (with a single bitcoin trading for upwards of $8,000). Is Bitcoin really secure? Remember Bitcoin’s rules: it caps the number of bitcoin at 21M and uses the Proof of Work system to secure the network. Blockchain.

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APRIL 26, 2018

China’s internet may be sandboxed from the rest of the world, but China’s big tech companies are bringing their AI capabilities to the global market. BAT’s private market AI bets and global expansion. BAT’s private market AI bets and global expansion. BRIEFING: China in Artificial intelligence. Conclusion.

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APRIL 30, 2015

Sneak Peek Part 7: Avoka, CBW Bank, Cloud Lending Solutions, Context Relevant, Dealstruck, DriveWealth, Dwolla, Dynamics, Encap Security, EyeBuy, FIS Mobile, Kabbage, Knox Payments, Lending Tree, LendKey. Ondot Systems builds white label solutions that enable financial institutions to provide security and convenience for their customers.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Facebook is facing breakup calls from a handful of advocacy groups that want the Federal Trade Commission to explore breaking up the social media giant. Others advocates calling for the breakup include Color of Change and Open Markets Institute , noted the report. The consent decree was inked in 2012.

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MAY 1, 2018

Atari spent $20M securing the movie rights, built the notoriously-hard-to-play game in just five and a half weeks, then produced 4 million cartridges, of which 2.5 BlackBerry PlayBook, BlackBerry (2011). Google+, Google (2011). PS Vita, Sony (2011). Amazon Local, Amazon (2011). Facebook Deals, Facebook (2011).

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MARCH 20, 2018

billion in market valuation and hitting a low not seen in four years thanks to its latest privacy scandal, this time with Cambridge Analytica. With the social media giant facing severe backlash from regulators, politicians and consumer groups in both the U.K. Facebook’s stock tanked in trading Monday (March 20), erasing $36.7

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MAY 3, 2018

In 2011, a university professor with a background in robotics presented an idea that seemed radical at the time. You’ll learn about cybersecurity trends to watch and high-momentum startups with the potential to shape the future of security. Government regulation & national security. Instead, they seem farsighted.

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