Ex-Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has died at 46. Here’s how the iconic entrepreneur went from selling pizzas from his Harvard dorm to leading the shoe company he sold to Amazon for $1.2 billion

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FilmMagic/Getty Images Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh has died at the age of 46.  Hsieh, a Harvard grad, went from selling pizza out of his dorm room to establishing himself as an eccentric and well-liked entrepreneur.  In his first year at Zappos, the company went from almost nothing in sales to […]

ClearSale Named a Leading Vendor to the Top 1000 E-Retailers

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Get inside Wall Street with StreetInsider Premium. Claim your 1-week free trial here. Digital Commerce 360’s annual report lists global fraud protection leader ClearSale among the top 10 vendors in the Payment Security/Fraud Prevention category. MIAMI–(BUSINESS WIRE)– Global fraud protection leader, ClearSale (https://www.clear.sale), has been named one of Digital Commerce […]

Leading US drugmakers will sign a pact to produce a safe coronavirus vaccine amid concerns about shots being rushed to market before the presidential election

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Scientists work on a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Carl Recine/Reuters The race to develop a coronavirus vaccine has already shattered records. In March, the biotechnology company Moderna entered its vaccine candidate in a clinical trial less than 70 days after the virus was sequenced, shaving a year off the development process. […]

A Market Leading Cash Cow

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The domain name registry space is considered one of the safest industries within the technology sector as it has a very strong cushion against most forms of industry slowdowns and economic downturns. VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRSN), which has a market-leading position within this space, is thus a very stable investment, in […]

the Black youth leading the George Floyd protests

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Shayla Avery texted a friend after the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, nearly 2,000 miles away in Berkeley, California. “We should do something,” wrote the 16-year-old high school student, frustrated that her teachers were not talking about it. So they started planning and a few days later, Avery, […]