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Patent Trolls Lead Patent Infringement Cases in 2013: Report

Driven by patent trolls, patent infringement cases increased by 25 percent in 2013 to a record 6,500 filings, according to a report released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC). The “2014 Patent Litigation Study” (PDF) says the total number of patents granted also increased by 7 percent to almost 300,000 last year. Continue reading

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Comcast Accounts for 49 Percent of New Broadband Subscribers in 2013: Report

Comcast added more than one million broadband subscribers last year, accounting for 49 percent of the total net additions for the top seventeen largest cable and telephone providers in the US. Continue reading

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‘Black Hole’ Effect Leads to Fewer Attacks on FireHost

Why has the total number of attacks reported by FireHost dropped from more than 17,000,000 in Q3 2013 to less than 9,000,000 in Q4 2013? FireHost claims this is at least partly to do with it’s IP reputation management filtering service that is creating a “black hole” effect in which would-be hackers don’t even attempt attacks on FireHost’s servers. Continue reading

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Cybersecurity Provider FireEye Acquires Mandiant in $1 Billion Deal

FireEye announced this week that it has acquired Mandiant for $1 billion. FireEye is paying 21.5 million shares and $106.5 million in cash for Mandiant, for a total sticker price of $989.4 million, although at the end of trading on Monday, when the deal closed, the share value had risen to push the total value over $1 billion. Continue reading

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Wrapping Up the SoftLayer Valuation

November 11, 2013 — So in the end what was the total acquisition value for SoftLayer when it was purchased by IBM? Both Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and everyone else I could find stated it was a $2 billion transaction. It was much higher and closer to my $2.4 billion. Keep on reading: Wrapping Up the SoftLayer Valuation Continue reading

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