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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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

socalTECH

So this is for e-commerce sites, not in person purchases? Jack Bicer: Any e-commerce site can be enabled for Sekur.me. Jack Bicer: We have already launched, and have production sites. 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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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

I continue to believe that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

I must be the only one who believes that most of the data gathering in the real world, and on the Internet, is done by businesses to help you find what you want, protect you, and improve your experience, rather than invade your privacy or scam you. There are others, like LifeLock , recently acquired by Symantec for $2.3

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Interview with Steve Jillings, TeleSign

socalTECH

What we do, is we help companies identify who is accessing their sites, and registering for their services. A real simple example, is someone comes to register for a particular web service, puts their name, and contact information into a site, and our clients asks them for a valid phone number. I was introduced to the founders.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

Both Sides of the Table

Gilt Group is currently the largest private sale web site in US. Helps content publishers and advertisers launch campaigns that develop viral distribution attributes and therefore gain “buzz.”. Competition: McAfee , Symantec. But there still is much value in helping enterprises succeed – so good luck! Time will tell.