For big companies, raising money matters less than gaining information about customers or even good PR.
In brief, whereas hustlers have gradually been losing their information advantage with respect to investors (resulting in the balance of power collapsing), hackers have generally been gaining information advantage with respect to both, as Internet-era technology has gotten more complex and specialized.
It seems Ms. Pulliam is gaining inside information from the government in its prosecution of Rajaratnam.
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The social network said in a blog post Friday afternoon that approximately 250, 000 user accounts were potentially compromised, with attackers gaining access to information including user names and email addresses.
The most common threat was a technique known as spear-phishing, which can corrupt a company's computer system by uploading malicious attachments and gaining access to sensitive information.
The White House - which have often prevented the congressional inquiry from gaining access to sensitive intelligence information - has promised to review the recommendations.
Indeed, Mr Ellison boasts that his enthusiasm for being a chief executive has been rekindled by the power he gained as a result of deploying the e-business suite within Oracle and thus gaining better, more timely information on which to base decisions.
Organizations that use workforce analytics today are gaining visibility into real-time information about labor that is accurate and actionable.
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Rowe Price and USAA have been gaining market share through increased advertising, educational information on their websites and other direct selling efforts to clients.
Not surprisingly, Facebook makes assumptions based on behavior to ensure that it propagates people and information with the highest likelihood of gaining attention or engagement.
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Instead, it infects the online community in a pandemic of free-speech-fueled defiance, gaining far more attention than it would have had the information's original owners simply kept quiet.
Fujitsu is eager to shed its loss-making hard-disk drive business, in order to focus on gaining ground against formidable rivals IBM and Hewlett-Packard in information technology services consulting.
Diageo asked the bureau in 2003 to allow the company to add that information to its products as low-carbohydrate diets were gaining in popularity.
Gaining access to the system is the equivalent of learning how to operate a filing system, and not accessing the information contained inside, the person familiar with the matter said.
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