Noname

API startup Noname Security nears $500M deal to sell itself to Akamai

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Noname Security, a cybersecurity startup that protects APIs, is in advanced talks with Akamai Technologies to sell itself for $500 million, according to a person familiar with the deal. Noname was co-founded in 2020 by Oz Golan and Shay Levi and is headquartered in Palo Alto but has Israeli roots. The startup raised $220 million … Read more

Clarence Thomas’s first public scandal got here in 1980, when he was a no-name aide to a GOP senator and complained to a journalist that his sister simply waited by the mailbox for her welfare test

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Clarence Thomas in 1992.Larry Downing/Sygma/Sygma through Getty Photographs In 1980, 32-year-old Clarence Thomas was a no-name aide to a Republican senator. At a convention for Black conservatives, he complained to a journalist about his sister being on welfare. The journalist, Juan Williams, wrote a column about it that caught the eye of Reagan’s staff. Lengthy … Read more