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$51B vanishes: 11 CEOs still get raises
2015-04-17 19:49:22| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
CEOs justify their huge paychecks by presumably making money for their bosses: The investors. But some CEOs got raises even as investors lost out big last year.
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PrimeRevenue raises $80M to help suppliers get paid
2015-04-17 13:32:42| Appliances - Topix.net
Atlanta-based PrimeRevenue Inc. has raised $80 million in a financing round led by private equity firm BBH Capital Partners. The supply chain finance firm plans to add about 100 jobs in the next several months.
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Southwest Airlines raises curtain on new seating and it's about time
2015-04-16 18:59:29| Airlines - Topix.net
Essentially conceding that the new passenger seat that it began rolling out three years ago has been a flop, Southwest Airlines announced it will begin introducing a new, thinner and - most notably - wider seat on aircraft it begins adding to its fleet in mid-2016. The seat arriving on Southwest's new planes starting next year will be 17.8 inches wide, as opposed to the 17.1-inch width of seats introduced as part of the carrier's highly-touted Evolve airplane interior makeover that was first announced in 2012 and slowly rolled out on hundreds of Southwest aircraft over the past three years.
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Hacked Touchscreen Voting Machine Raises Questions About Election Security
2015-04-16 17:07:14| Wireless - Topix.net
Computer security experts have warned for years that some voting machines are vulnerable to attack. And this week, in Virginia, the state Board of Elections decided to impose an immediate ban on touchscreen voting machines used in 20 percent of the state's precincts, because of newly discovered security concerns.
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Menlo Ventures raises $400M fund to back the next Uber or Tumblr
2015-04-15 15:57:29| Biotech - Topix.net
Menlo Ventures, a totem of the powerful Sand Hill Road investing community that has backed almost every major Silicon Valley success story since the birth of the silicon chip, has raised a $400 million fund to back a new generation of tech startups, the firm announced Wednesday. The new fund will allow Menlo Ventures -- which has funded companies such as Uber, Tumblr and Gilead Sciences -- to continue its role as a heavyweight in what has become an ultracompetitive investing environment where funding rounds have reached never-before-seen levels.
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