22 October 2025 · Articles, Brand, Know-How, Software
From $160m to $16m for the social news aggregator. Valued at $160m in 2008 when Digg had 30m users a month, the value plummeted to $16m when its users dropped to 7m a month in 2012. 45 million in funding from A list investors like Marc Andreessen, Reid Hoffman, Greylock Partners and others. This was […]
Read More9 April 2025 · Articles, Information Security, Know-How, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
Trade secrets are the most valuable, coveted yet risky assets within your business. Your people pose the greatest threat to your trade secrets but also offer the best defence! Most information security and trade secret programmes tend to focus their efforts in the wrong areas: The Corporate Response is to Focus in The Wrong Areas […]
Read More10 February 2025 · AI, Confidential Information, Contracts, Cyber Security, Information Security, Innovation, Know-How, Knowledge, Knowledge Transfer, Trade secrets
A US Federal Reserve official leaked trade secrets while being paid US$450,000 to ‘teach’ at a Chinese university. This is the allegation by US prosecutors. John Rogers shared the information with Chinese intelligence officers who posed as graduate students from a Chinese university. The secret information was from the Federal Reserve’s powerful interest rate-setting committee […]
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