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Dov Moran's M-Systems helped pioneer USB flash drives: plug-in storage that needed neither a stack of disks nor a separate drive. Early models held just a few megabytes. In 2006, SanDisk acquired the company for about $1.6 billion—a substantial business behind that tiny device people kept losing.
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