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How Wi-Fi router security has deteriorated since 2003

The Parallax

D-Link has promptly started investigating the issue, and we will provide updates as soon as we have more information,” company representative Michelle Chiang said in an email. “D-Link Of those vendors, only D-Link responded to requests for comment. “D-Link D-Link takes the issues of network security and user privacy very seriously.”.

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Why so many SaaS companies are launching their own media operations

TechCrunch

Around 2003, as blogs began to take hold in the internet psyche , it became clear that these writing tools could be more than an outlet for an individual’s ruminations — they also had vast potential for business and marketing. And, can startups imitate the sort of content production we’re seeing at incumbent SaaS companies?

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Attend Ajay Agarwal’s TechCrunch Early Stage roundtable to hear his advice to early-stage software companies

TechCrunch

Ajay has been an instrumental investor since joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003. For the last 20 years, Ajay’s worked with early-stage founders to build companies from seed to unicorn such as SendGrid, Clari, Gainsight, FourKites, 6sense, and Bloomreach. Book your pass today — college students pay just $99!

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Squarespace raises $300M at a staggering $10B valuation

TechCrunch

Squarespace has raised $300 million in a round of funding that values the company at a staggering $10 billion valuation. New backers include Dragoneer, Tiger Global, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, funds and accounts advised by T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. and Spruce House.

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$10B is the new $1B, and we need a new framework for startup valuations

TechCrunch

In the past, we might have said that once a private-market company earns a $1 billion valuation, it is no longer a startup. It was once an indicator of a startup demonstrating abnormal success, the marker of a positive outlier to a degree that the company in question deserved the boosterish sobriquet. That’s fair. That’s about.07

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How doing everything wrong turned Automattic into a multibillion dollar media powerhouse

TechCrunch

Today, to those who haven’t been paying attention, the company looks a bit like an overnight success story. WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. Back in 2003, that was the context for the so-called weblog, which would shortly be elided to blog.

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Holmes’ sentencing sends a clear message that the startup ecosystem must be built on good faith

TechCrunch

As TechCrunch’s Amanda Silberling wrote on Friday about the company : Holmes founded Theranos in 2003 after dropping out of Stanford. Soon she was the CEO of a company with a $10 billion valuation, but it turned out that the technology didn’t work.