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2015 Marriott Breach: Prelude To 2018 Cyberattack?

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Marriott International , which announced last week it was the victim of a hack in which the bad guys accessed its reservation database for Starwood properties, could have stopped the breach years earlier. A spokeswoman for Marriott said everyone involved would have preferred the incident was identified earlier.

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Data Enablers: Wiland’s Marketing Research Helping Consumers

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And then there’s the challenge of how to use marketing research to reach the right consumer in the right channel and the right time with the right message. Wiland operates one of the largest consumer databases, tracking more than $220 billion in transactional, SKU-level data — transactional and behavioral — for over 235 million Americans.

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India’s Jana Bank Left KYC Customer Data Exposed

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Researcher Jeremiah Fowler first discovered an accessible database that was eventually revealed to be owned by Jana Bank and included sensitive customer data including Voter ID, driver’s license, passport, PAN Card, transaction, email, username and other information, part of the bank’s Know Your Customer verification database.

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Groupon Co-founder Snags $200M For Genomic Testing Company

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Founded in 2015, the company has raised $520 million in funding so far. The Tempus platform offers the largest, connected clinical and genomic database aggregated from academic medical centers and community-based hospitals, serving the entire healthcare ecosystem of providers, payers, researchers and life sciences companies.

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2017 Has Now Seen 4 Of New York’s Top 10 VC-Backed Tech Exits

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Download this research briefing to go deep on 369 of tech’s highest-value private companies. MongoDB, which provides database management services, is backed by investors including Union Square Ventures, Sequoia Capital, New Enterprise Associates. valuation reached in 2015 after MongoDB raised its Series G.

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The United States Of Fintech: The Most Well-Funded Fintech Startup In Each State

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Following our previous mapping of the most well funded startups in each state and most well funded food & beverage startups in each state , we used CB Insights database to identify the most well-funded private fintech startup in each state. FINTECH TRENDS Q3 2017 RESEARCH BRIEFING.

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Where Major Chip Companies Are Investing In AI, AR/VR, And IoT

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This research briefing examines investments into IoT companies targeting enterprise and heavy industry. Intel Capital is by far the most active corporate entity, with 168 deals since 2015 (that’s not including the 15 M&A deals from Intel proper). Samsung and Qualcomm Ventures both invested in NoSQL database company ScyllaDB.

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