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LinkedIn sues a company called ProAPIs for allegedly operating millions of fake accounts to scrape LinkedIn member data and selling it for ~$15,000 per month (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/linkedin-sues-data-scraping-company

LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles
ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform.

email_company: Manufacturing company email (2010)
A network of emails among employee email addresses at a mid-sized manufacturing company. Each directed edge represents an email sent from address i to address j. Edges are timestamped, and occurred over a 6 month period in an unspecified year.
This network has 167 nodes and 82927 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigraph, Timestamps

Ukraine, US company to co-produce hundreds of thousands of drones in 2025, Zelensky announces: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/03/ukraine-us-company-to-coproduce.html

Still way too many
@… - The number of large companies paying no tax in Australia has declined, says ATO https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10…

The number of large companies paying no tax in Australia has declined, says ATO
The proportion of large companies in Australia that paid no tax in the most recent income year has declined from 36 per cent to 28 per cent over the past 11 years.

They learned from the Grifter-in-Chief.
Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/us/politics/trump-jan-6-rioters-compensation.html

Already Pardoned by Trump, Jan. 6 Rioters Push for Compensation
One of the rioters’ lawyers wants to create a panel that would decide on financial damages for what the rioters believe were unfair prosecutions.

I wonder - what if companies around the US adopted and publicized a hiring policy such as the following:
We <company name> require that all employees exercise good judgement. We <company name> have concluded that prior employment with ICE is irrebuttable proof of bad judgement. As a consequence we <company name> will not hire any candidate for employment who has previously worked for, consulted with, or otherwise been associated with ICE.

SentinelOne researchers detail over 10 offensive cybersecurity patents filed by Shanghai Firetech, a company allegedly involved in Beijing's Silk Typhoon hacks (Jonathan Greig/The Record)
https://therecord.media/patents-silk-typhoon-company-beijing

Patents by Silk Typhoon-linked company shed light on Beijing’s offensive hacking capabilities
Researchers have discovered more than 10 patents for powerful offensive cybersecurity technologies filed by a prominent Chinese company allegedly involved in Beijing’s Silk Typhoon campaign.

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

sa_companies: South African companies (1919)
A bipartite network of the affiliations between a small group of individuals and five important companies in South African finance, around 1919.
This network has 11 nodes and 13 edges.
Tags: Social, Affiliation, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/sa_comp

a16z releases a report, with Mercury data, on the top 50 AI companies startups pay for; OpenAI leads, followed by Anthropic, Replit, Freepik, and ElevenLabs (Dominic-Madori Davis/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/02/a-ne

A new a16z report looks at which AI companies startups are actually paying for | TechCrunch
a16z releases its first AI spending report that shows which AI-native application layer companies startups are actually spending money on .