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Competitive swimmer

U.S. Officials Tell Tech Startups to Beware of Foreign Spies Cloaked as Investors

Competitive swimmer

For every Facebook, Twitter and Reddit, there are thousands of technology startups that sputter, stall and collapse. They typically face ruthless competition to secure sufficient funding to begin building their businesses. Now it seems star...

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CrowdStrike’s Woes Highlight Concerns About Bespoke Accounting Metric

View through rose-colored lenses

By any measure, the last two weeks of July have been brutal for cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike. CrowdStrike reported what it called “exceptional” first quarter financial results in early June – taunting competitors Microsoft and Palo Alto N...

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Observers Say ESG Disclosure Principles Need Refreshing

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Influential management consultant Peter Drucker famously said that if you can’t measure something, you can’t manage it. In other words, you can never tell how something is performing if you lack a way to quantify its performance. That’s all...

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Conservative Backlash Raises Existential Issues for DEI Programs

Old barn with vintage tractors

There’s an old country fable that goes: When you sit down to bacon and eggs at breakfast, the chicken is involved, but the pig is committed. Many dedicated customers of retail chain Tractor Supply Co. and Deere & Co., manufacturer of Jo...

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Nasdaq, NYSE Propose Aligning Deadlines for SPAC Mergers, Delistings

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The quest for uniformity between the major U.S. stock exchanges when it comes to mergers of special purpose acquisition companies took an interesting turn this week. First, a primer on recent events for the uninitiated. SPACs are shell comp...

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