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With 14 partners, GV is one of the most active U.S. corporate venture firms in the United States. Its holdings include Jet.com, an e-commerce firm that Walmart has agreed to acquire for US$3 billion in cash plus $300 million in Walmart shares. GV currently manages around $2.4 billion and currently has a staff of 70. ...

When I spoke to TWC's sales people, it was like talking to a good friend -- they were so helpful and reassuring. The sales staff are all about convincing you that the too-good-to-be-true deal you're contemplating actually is true. When you're a prospect, you're treated like highborn. As soon as you become a customer, your status plummets to commoner.

Denton's confirmation that he would be filing for personal bankruptcy, just weeks after Gawker filed for bankruptcy protection, came earlier this week in a memo he sent to staffers. Denton lashed out at billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who secretly backed Hogan's legal case against Gawker. Thiel was the subject of a controversial in 2007 article published by the company's Valleywag blog, which outed the conservative billionaire as gay...

ISC2 recommended that the government include human resources, as well as technological solutions, in developing cyberprotection; address cyberworker dissatisfaction, and give employees more authority; educate all workers -- not just security staff -- about cyberthreats; and improve retention of cybertalent...

"With the alleged leader taken out, any potential revival will fall to other staff who may well be the next target, as authorities seized emails, hard drives and other records that may help them bring further cases," he pointed out Piracy vs. First Amendment...

At the same time, the business might use gamification to reward sales people for other desired but less highly prioritized behaviors, like engagement with training, while offering a cash prize to the rep who placed at the top of the staff in building relationships with customers, based on customer survey results...

Cozy Bear, which is also known as "CozyDuke" or "Apt 29," in the past has accessed unclassified sections of the White House, State Dept., U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff and targeted companies in the defense, financial, energy and other industries. The group's usual approach is th...

That said, students should look at getting Federal Stafford loans first, as federal student loans "are cheaper, more available, and have better repayment terms -- even with this new discount," Kantrowitz pointed out However, federal Stafford loans have annual and aggregate li...

July 13. U.S. House Committee on Science and Technology releases report revealing Chinese hackers compromised computer systems at FDIC and planted malware on 12 workstations and 10 servers, including systems of the agency's chairman, chief of staff and general counsel July 13....

"In theory, he could have emptied an entire vial of medication into a patient," said Wassom, "and a hospital staff person monitoring the device from a central location would never have known." While hackers could leverage exploits to modify systems and cause physical harm to ...

Be careful with your coaching, though. Arming yourself with data from CRM and then using it in a heavy-handed way with your sales staff is an adoption killer If salespeople discover that the data they're entering into CRM will become a weapon that managers will use against the...

Officials at the United States Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which insures deposits in U.S. banks, made false statements to Congress and failed to make timely notification of serious cybersecurity breaches, according to a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology's interim staff report...

"This is a groundbreaking decision that helps protect privacy rights around the world," said Lee Tien, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "The court recognized the vital privacy protections under the SCA, and correctly ruled that the government can't...

The unit employs a small core of digitaI product acquisition experts, often with private sector experience, to assist procurement staffs that might not be fully up to speed on market offerings or on how to frame a request for proposals "We are aiming to be more inviting in ter...

Pokemon Go does not have a self-protection mechanism built-in to prevent that type of vulnerability, Wu Zhou, staff research scientist at FireEye, told TechNewsWorld. In addition, many apps built for Android allow side-loading of third-party apps from untrusted sources....

Companies with limited or no IT staff will be able to get the full IT stack from Microsoft's CSP partners. The bundle will include Windows 10, Office 365, Dynamics Azure and CRM on a per user, per month basis. It can be scaled up or down as needed as a managed service offering.

Facebook's dual approach, which allows both encrypted and unencrypted messages over the same system, is a "fundamentally unsafe design choice," said Nate Cardozo, senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. "It's just plain too easy to send an unencrypted me...

A lot of the trends we've identified are going to mature. We're going to see a major swing from synchronous to asynchronous challenges, such as from email to live chat. Companies are going to need to significantly retool and reorganize their staff. We're going to see a blurr...

Such systems traditionally have been leveraged for asset management, such as locating equipment and monitoring for temperature-sensitive substances, he told TechNewsWorld. Pulling from the opposite direction, hospitals now are focusing on improving the patient experience, along with tuning the efficiency of staff operations...

"None of these emails should have been on any kind of unclassified system, but their presence is especially concerning because all of these emails were housed on unclassified personal servers not even supported by full-time security staff, like those found at departments and agencies of the U.S. government -- or even with a commercial service like Gmail," Comey said...