Tag: ehesive
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US bank gains help lift share markets
byThree of the biggest US banks reported strong profits on Friday, helping to lift US share markets after several days of steep declines. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 closed up more than 1%, while the Nasdaq leapt nearly 2.3%. The increases followed a rise on global markets. The gains at JP Morgan […]
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Advice for Elon Musk From Richard Branson, Arianna Huffington and Mark Cuban
byAmong their recommendations for Tesla’s CEO? Delegate, get more sleep and learn to embrace short sellers. Elon Musk has had a hell of a year. The list of people the Tesla CEO has sparred with — investors on a company earnings call, investigators looking into a deadly Tesla crash, billionaire Warren Buffett, short sellers, a […]
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PSA: Hackers Are Using Fake Flash Updates to Hide Cryptocurrency Mining Malware
byIt has been discovered that fake Adobe Flash updates are being used to surreptitiously install cryptocurrency mining malware on computers and networks, creating severe losses in time, system performance, and power consumption for affected users. Cryptojacking Breaks New Ground While fake Flash updates that push malware have traditionally been easy to spot and avoid, a […]
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‘Social Credit’ Tech Is Coming: 5 Ways for U.S. Entrepreneurs to Capitalize
byIs your behavior naughty or nice? Forget Santa: Government and corporations will soon be taking notice. It sounds like something out of science fiction: the daily behavior of billions of citizens, tracked digitally and rewarded or punished by an unknowable, all-powerful algorithm. But, such digital control is no longer simply the stuff of pulp novels. […]
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Hackers stole details of 29 million users in Facebook breach
byFacebook Inc (FB.O) said on Friday attackers stole names and contact details of 29 million users in the mass security breach disclosed by the social media network late last month. The breach, Facebook’s worst ever, has exacerbated concerns among users, lawmakers and investors that the company is not doing enough to safeguard data, particularly in […]
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Microsoft Is Pushing New Blockchain ID Products (But There’s Pushback, Too)
byMicrosoft is moving to turn blockchain-based decentralized identity from a lofty aspiration into a business line. In a white paper posted this week, the software giant says it intends to develop two products designed to give consumers greater control of their personal data – long the Holy Grail of many technologists in the blockchain space and adjacent industries. One such product […]
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Hurricane Michael flattens beach town like ‘mother of all bombs’
byHurricane Michael has all but rubbed a Florida beach town off the map after landing like the “mother of all bombs”. The storm smashed into the state’s north-west coast near the community of Mexico Beach on Wednesday afternoon packing 155mph (250km/h) winds. Over 1.4m homes had no power in Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia and the […]
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None of us is bulletproof - advice for founders
byBy Patrick Hall I had lunch recently with an investor who expressed frustration about founders of startups and scale-ups. They are not a fund partner, nor VC or from the Private Equity world. No, they actually built a business of value and lived it for the whole journey through to an ultimate sale and cash out […]
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6 Things You Need to Know About Your Investors Before You Ask for Money
byBy David Devils Do your homework and get to know these six things about the people you’re going to be borrowing money from. When you’ve hung out with company founders as much as I have, you’ve inevitably heard the following line: “I have a big meeting coming up.” Because the entrepreneur got the appointment, he’s […]
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2 reasons customers don’t care about your digital signage
byYou just got done with a major digital signage installation. You finally got the media player up and running and you finished designing all your content. You set it up, and wait for customers to notice, only for most of them to ignore it. You might go back to the drawing board and ask, “Should […]
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