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SEC Goes After “Fake It Till You Make It” Fraudsters

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In 2022, a jury convicted Theranos Inc. founder Elizabeth Holmes of perpetrating an audacious fraud against investors in her blood-testing company that turned the Stanford University dropout into a billionaire in her early 20s. Her story ha...

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

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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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Execs’ 10b5-1 Plans Reportedly at Heart of Silicon Valley Bank Investigation

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What did Silicon Valley Bank executives know, and when did they know it? Ever since the financial institution of choice for venture capital-backed startups went bust on March 10, talk in the media and around Washington has focused on the po...

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