From the Washingtonian, January 2012 On the afternoon of February 15, 2011, Jaime Zapata, a 32-year-old special agent with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, was shot to death by members of a drug cartel as he drove along a four-lane highway in Mexico. Zapata’s partner, 38-year-old Victor Avila, who survived the attack, later said that as[…]
Authored by Nafeez Ahmed via Medium.com, Inside the secret network behind mass surveillance, endless war, and Skynet… INSURGE INTELLIGENCE, a new crowd-funded investigative journalism project, breaks the exclusive story of how the United States intelligence community funded, nurtured and incubated Google as part of a drive to dominate the world through control of information. Seed-funded by[…]
This post is adapted from the blog of Craft, a Priceonomics Data Content Platform customer. Does your company have interesting data? Become a Priceonomics customer. *** There have been a flurry of IPOs in 2018, many for companies in the Technology sector. Previously, we looked at the compensation of Fortune 100 company CEOs and we were curious to see how[…]
From Zero Hedge 3/17/2018 Today we highlight the most interesting investment firm on Earth: In-Q-Tel, the US Central Intelligence Agency’s venture capital arm. The “Q” in the name is an homage to James Bond’s quartermaster. The rest of the story is even cooler than that, and what they own is a useful signpost for the direction of[…]
From Real Investment Advice, Nov 15 2018: TechCrunch recently posted a fascinating chart of the monthly count of global VC deals that raised $100 million or more since 2007. According to this chart, a new “unicorn” startup was born every four days in 2018. Unfortunately, this is even more evidence of the tech startup bubble that I have been[…]
From Reuters – December 19th 2018 By Ludwig Burger and Patricia Weiss FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Palantir Technologies Inc will set up a cancer data analytics joint venture with German lab supplies company Merck KGaA, as the U.S. analytics and security firm makes further inroads into health care. The new U.S.-based venture, called Syntropy, will offer cancer[…]
From the Wall Street Journal: Oct, 2018 Data-mining giant Palantir Technologies Inc., one of Silicon Valley’s most secretive companies, is weighing an initial public offering likely to be among the largest in recent years, people familiar with the matter said. Palantir is discussing with investment banks Credit Suisse CS -3.72% and Morgan StanleyMS -5.04% plans to go public as soon as the[…]
A unicorn is a privately held startup company valued at over $1 billion. The term was coined in 2013 by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, choosing the mythical animal to represent the statistical rarity of such successful ventures.[1][2][3][4] A decacorn is a word used for those companies over $10 billion,[5] while hectocornis the appropriate term for such a company valued over $100 billion. According to TechCrunch, there were[…]
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