©2015 Bloomberg News NOZAND6K50Y8 (Bloomberg) — Identity thieves stole information on 104,000 U.S. taxpayers from the IRS website and used the data to file fake tax returns that yielded as much as $50 million in refunds, agency Commissioner John Koskinen said. The thieves had enough personal information on the taxpayers

published Dec 20th 2016, 5:12 pm, by Lizette Chapman (Bloomberg) —Persado Chief Executive Officer Alex Vratskides could raise venture funding. He’s just not sure he wants to. His New York-based startup doubled annual revenue this year and is on track to break even in 2017. Valued at about $200 million