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Strategy, the Bitcoin-focused firm formerly known as MicroStrategy, has made a significant financial move — using sixty-one percent of its dedicated cash reserves to repurchase one point five billion dollars in convertible notes. The company kept its Bitcoin holdings entirely intact, signaling a clear priority: protect the crypto stack, manage the debt.
Meanwhile, PayPal is facing real pressure at the checkout. Rivals including Apple Pay and a wave of buy-now-pay-later services are chipping away at the payments giant's core business. PayPal built an empire on owning the online checkout moment, but that moment is now contested territory, and the company is searching for its next act.
And on the security front, a sobering reminder that ransomware attacks are far more widespread than the headlines suggest. Researchers say reported incidents represent only a fraction of what's actually happening, with attackers consistently targeting organizations based on the value of their data — not their size or profile. The real numbers, experts warn, are likely much higher.
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