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FireEye, Mandiant to Split in $1.2 Billion Deal

eSecurity Planet

Mandia will become CEO of Mandiant, the company he founded in 2004 and sold to FireEye in late 2013. Gartner expects worldwide information security and risk management spending to grow 12% this year to $150 billion, with services making up almost half the market. The post FireEye, Mandiant to Split in $1.2

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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

If you think of Uber as a company that takes a previously expensive, complicated, and inefficient process and leverages the Internet, mobile devices, the 1099 economy , and logistics to create a 10X better offering, there’s no reason the company won’t identify and pick off one or more similar markets in 2015. Adtech comes back.

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Predictions 2014: A Difficult Year To See

John Battelle's Searchblog

The subject of this cloud has nothing – directly – to do with digital media, marketing, technology or platform ecosystems – the places where I focus much of my writing. If you’re wondering what’s made me feel this way, a couple of choice articles from 2013 (and there were too many to count) should do the trick.

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Predictions 2016: How’d I Do?

John Battelle's Searchblog

But I did predict that massive companies would put their missions at the core of their marketing, and that certainly happened with corporations like Unilever, Ikea, H&M, and many others. 12 – Sports unbundle. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did. 2004 Predictions. 2004 How I Did. Well… no.

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Predictions 2016: Apple, Tesla, Google, Medium, Adtech, Microsoft, IoT, and Business on a Mission

John Battelle's Searchblog

This trend will evince itself in many forms: We’ll see massive older companies shift their marketing focus to purpose-based messaging – both to insure top talent considers them as a career choice, and to maintain relevance to a new generation of purpose-based consumers. Predictions 2013. 2013: How I Did.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. It's also up there with the highest paying industries around.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Investments in cybersecurity more than doubled from $12 billion to $29.5 billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Accel Investments. Kleiner Perkins. Lightspeed Venture Partners. Redpoint Ventures.