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mSIGNIA Looks To Secure Mobile Devices

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mSIGNIA , a developer of mobile security tools, has quietly been funded by the Tech Coast Angels and Gold Hill Capital, it was revealed by the TCA last week. mSIGNIA, which is based in Irvine, apparently islooking to help manage the identity of online users, and is targeting online service providers with mobile applications.

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TeleSign Names New CEO

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Los Angeles-based mobile security and identity services provider TeleSign said Wednesday morning that it has named Aled Miles as the company's new CEO. Miles also served at GM and ForgeRock. Miles also served at GM and ForgeRock. READ MORE>>.

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How Sekur.me Wants To Use Cell Phones To Fix Abandoned Shopping Carts

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What we do, is we provide the capability for users to pay for those purchases using their mobile phone. Why use a mobile phone for payment, rather than something like Amazon or Paypal? The uninstall was an interesting story--I was working on Norton Desktop at Symantec, and I was in charge of the installation process.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Booyah – Develops a location based service platform that pairs the virtual world with mobile gaming. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. In the show we talked about why this is important to mobile application developers.

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

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What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. You found the team behind TeleSign, and have helped bring together a team to scale out the business. I was sitting on the board at LiveOffice, which was funded by Summit Partnres, and was just sold to Symantec two weeks ago.

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New Year to Bring New Data Security Threats, Cyber Investor Warns

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Ackerman (pictured) is founder and managing director of San Francisco-based VC firm AllegisCyber , and co-founder of Fulton, MD-based DataTribe , which helps launch startups grounded in the expertise of former federal cybersecurity experts at the National Security Agency and other government units. His portfolio companies.