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Title says "how" but it doesn't explain anything. It just lists that they run two malicious Chrome extensions. Talk about clickbait.
by ga-vu 7y ago
Title says "how" but it doesn't explain anything.
It just lists that they run two malicious Chrome extensions.
Talk about clickbait.
- GreenMoose 7y agoWas thinking exactly that.
- danso 7y ago> Genimous Technology Co Ltd, a public company traded on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange under the symbol 000676, is the 12 billion CNY ($1.7 billion USD) company that is behind these extensions [1]. Their ownership is concealed through shell companies setup in offshore jurisdictions like Polarity Technologies Ltd in Cyprus and EightPoint Technologies Ltd in the Cayman Islands, but can be traced through analysis of the browser extensions terms of service and contact information [2, 3]. Based on public filings, in the first 6 months of 2019, Genimous made 900,296,410.76 CNY ($125 million USD) from its overseas division, which generates its revenues from ads on search results pages [4, 5 (page 15 of the PDF)] for a $250 million yearly run rate.
- ga-vu 7y agoThat's just a description of the company, probably copy-pasted from some stock market site. When someone says "how they built an empire" I expect to read their history and modus operandi.
- danso 7y agoI don't think stock market blurbs have this: > Their ownership is concealed through shell companies setup in offshore jurisdictions like Polarity Technologies Ltd in Cyprus and EightPoint Technologies Ltd in the Cayman Islands, but can be traced through analysis of the browser extensions terms of service and contact information In any case, it's a blog post summarizing ongoing reporting and developments of a new company that ostensibly operates below the radar. It seems obvious that it won't contain the kind of indepth, historical content that a book offers.