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With Its Hotspot Shield Hitting 60M Downloads, AnchorFree Lands A Whopping $52M From Goldman Sachs
techcrunch.com 1 week, 1 day agoThis morning AnchorFree , the makers of the popular virtual private network Hotspot Shield, is announcing that it has raised $52 million in series C financing from Goldman Sachs. All in all, this brings the Mountain View-based startup to over $63 million, following the $11 million the company raised in series A and B rounds, dating back to 2006 . As part of its whopping series C round, Goldman is joined by existing investors former chairman and CEO of MCI Bert Roberts, RENN Capital President Russell Clevela
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Why No Web Blackout For CISPA? Google It
fastcompany.com 2 weeks, 6 days agoTo understand why “the Internet community” isn’t up in arms over the new cyber security bill, you have to follow the money. According to the blog-and- Twitter hive mind, a kind of “Internet spring” blossomed early in 2012. On January 18, major websites including Wikipedia, “went dark” to protest SOPA (the Stop Online Piracy Act), and Google blacked out its logo and explained its objections to the bill in an official blog post. The threat of online censorship--rooted in reality but grossly exaggerated--gener


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