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

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Sekur.me , a new Santa Ana-based startup, has come up with a new app and service to use your cell phone for payment, bypassing the complexity of shopping carts. Where are you in terms of launch, and what inspired you to start up the company? We started because of abandoned shopping carts.

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How GoToMyPC Kicked pcAnywhere’s A$$

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However, for many online startups, form should drive the design process. This dynamic duo, who now head up AppFolio , led the design and development of GoToMyPC and GoToMeeting. Their focus on ease-of-use form over function resulted in a series of products that defeated stalwart incumbents, including marketing-leader Symantec.

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Spammers Running Japan Tsunami Scams, Says Norton

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Norton reported that spammers have already started to try to take advantage of the outpouring of support for the victims in Japan, pleading for donations. Norton is the Internet security brand of Symantec Corp.

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Getting To The Next Level In Cloud Storage, With IDrive

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We also have a mobile version of the product, Idrive Lite, which is primarily used to back up contacts. We have over 400 million contacts backed up for our users. Raghu Kulkami: We started our IDRIVE service around 2007, but we had been around before that. There''s Carbonite, Mozy, Symantec Online Backup, just to name a few.

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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

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That challenge is a major business opportunity, as well as a risk, for startups. There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 Internet users need to start watching out for themselves, like looking both ways before you cross the street. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

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Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 In 2015, Cybersecurity startups saw 332 funding deals with investments hitting the highest ever at $3.8 Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. A Startup’s Opportunity to Thrive. billion (235 percent growth over 5 years). Why is this happening?

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$100M Round Turns San Diego’s Seismic into Region’s Newest Unicorn

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Seismic, an enterprise software company with ambitious growth plans, has raised $100 million in a Series E financing and added Microsoft chairman John W. The venture investment, which the San Diego startup announced Tuesday, is one of only a few so-called mega-rounds—$100 million or more—recorded this year in the region.