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Spotflux Internet Privacy Application gives Free Online Security by Olukunlw Moses

Posted in Inetellectual Property, internet, Internet Privacy, Internet Security, SpotFlux, Technology, Uncategorized, Web Access and Privacy on October 25, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Spotflux Internet Privacy Application gives Free Online Security

Review of: Spotflux

Summary:

Spotflux is a new growing Internet Security Software that offers a free online privacy service

Founded by Chris and Dean, they claimed that Softflux is not another VPN or Proxy service; but it offers a real time internet privacy service. Spotflux internet privacy application is dedicated to securing your digital data on any device in any location. Apart from encrypting your internet traffic, this application cleans tracking cookies and viruses with your system not slowing down.

Spotflux Spotflux Internet Privacy Application gives Free Online Security

Here are the functions of Spotflux internet privacy application

  • Encrypted and Secure Connection

No matter where you are browsing, travelling, home, public Wi-Fi, Spotflux gives you the best of protection and keeps your privacy while you browse.

  • Malware and Virus Protection

So much threat are loaded on the internet, Spotflux internet privacy application scans your connection continually and secure your connection from malware and viruses.

  • Open and Unrestricted Access

Spotflux internet privacy application opens you to restricted contents, the language of” this service is not available in your area” is never found when you have installed Spotflux.

  • Private, Ad-free Browsing Experience

You location and IP is kept private. Spotflux saves bandwidth and gives you an ad-free surfing experience. No ads pop up will ever disturb you.

How to get Spotflux internet privacy application

The application is available for download at Spotflux.com, run the software, enable it and enjoy an unlimited browsing experience.

Spotflux in Action Spotflux Internet Privacy Application gives Free Online Security

How is Spotflux internet privacy application different from other VPN and Proxy service?

  • The geek is behind the mechanism in which Spotflux employs, and it was explained by Chris and Dean who happens to be the author.
  • You need not to trouble yourself on browser’s settings to redirect IP as proxy service providers will tell you to do. Just enable the Spotflux internet privacy application application, and enjoy your internet.
  • Spotflux internet privacy application encrypts and forwards your internet traffic through it own cloud.
  • Millions on calculations runs on Spotflux cloud, removing cookies, ads and other internet parasites that follow your connectivity around.
  • Other threats such as viruses and malwares are taken out of the way.
  • Spotflux conceals the identity and location of your device, making you browse into any server anywhere.
  • To crown it all, you enjoy unrestricted, safer and confidential internet browsing.

Spotflux internet privacy application is a new product that just got introduced around March 2012 and the makers are New York based. They have a goal in providing tools that can work to give privacy and security without limiting access to full information not minding the location.

My Personal Experience with Spotflux internet privacy application

The product website was sent to me from the author who got to know about me through the web, before I downloaded the product, I carefully went through the website and I feel if all the recipes provided on the website were true, this product is worth trying out.

Experiencing no difficulty, I downloaded the software, which was redirected from CNET download.com, I installed and guess what, and the experience has been great so far.

My other internet provider usually has a difficulty in visiting some web at afternoon hours, the power of Spotflux has worked wonders, and the product is just great. Unlike the VPN and Proxy which redirects, Spotflux is something totally different.

What amazes me so much is that this service is free; I guess these guys are running a philantropy organization because I know how much I pay to get a VPN service. I have tried so much of them anyway; none has really pleased me to an extent.

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About Spotflux internet privacy application developers

Chris Naegelin and Dean Mekkawy are co-founders of Spotflux, they were tech addicts around the 1990′s during their high school days. Around 2011, Chris and Dean came together in the same dream of creating some tools that will bring sanity to the world of internet to offer people an online privacy they desire, they began with just a few serves around Chris’s basement, that was what brought about Spotflux internet privacy application, and within few months, the product has hit over 100, 000 users who got amazed about the magic.

Today, Spotflux is exponentially growing as people can now comfortably sit down to enjoy their online privacy.

Some of the investors who has found interest in the good work includes; New Atlantic, Kima and some other ventures who has really been of help in the funding of the Spotflux internet privacy application project.

Spotflux is presently available for free, but the authors are really working to add new features which they will later offer for purchase by the general internet users.

The Spotflux internet privacy application guys are really sure of their product as they publish their street address their website, as well as their Facebook and Twitter page. The six member team working on this project has their mini profile on the Spotflux website.

Download this product, enable it, and tell us what your experiences looks like.

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Facebook Lets Businesses Plug In CRM Email Addresses To Target Customers With Hyper-Relevant Ads

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, boic, Branding, Digital Marketing, FaceBook, Gerbsman Partners, Market research, Social Networks, Strategy, Technology, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , on September 21, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Article from TechCrunch.

No one got just how powerful it was that Facebook recently said it would allow ad targeting to lists of email addresses. Today at the Dreamforce conference it became clear, as Facebook ad chief David Fischer formally launched “Custom Audience” ads and how they tie into CRM. I’m convinced they’re going to be hugely profitable for advertisers and Facebook.

Why? A hotel company like Starwood has email addresses of its customers and could target “Come stay at the luxurious St. Regis” to high-end customers who’ve stayed there before, while targeting “Find cheap hotels nearby” to those who’ve stayed at its low-budget brands. That means more sales and more loyalty for advertisers, and more revenue for Facebook.

On August 30, Facebook told press that Custom Audiences was coming, but now it’s live with eight ads providers. Custom Audience ads let businesses submit a text or CSV file of privacy-protected hashed email addresses, phone numbers, or Facebook User IDs and have Facebook target those people with a specific ad. Businesses can also layer on additional ad targeting parameters, such as age or interests to reach a specific demographic within a customer segment.

Salesforce who brought in Fischer for its Dreamforce conference is uniquely suited to take advantage of custom audience ads because it owns both its massively popular eponymous customer relationship management system, but also a Facebook ads buying system Brighter Option that it got with its acquisition of Buddy Media this summer.

I’ve attained from Facebook a list of the seven other vendors working with custom audience ads, but none have their own CRM. They are AdParlor, Alchemy Social, GraphEffect, Kenshoo, Nanigans, Social Moov, and Optimal.

Custom audience targeted ads will be much more relevant than ads just targeted to a business fan’s or some biographical demographic. They can reach people who a business is sure purchased its products before, or that haven’t thanks to exclusionary targeting. Yes, businesses could just email these existing customers for free. However,  Facebook can help them hone in on certain demographic segments of their customers by overlaying additional targeting parameters, and reach them vividly through the news feed instead of their dry inbox.

Here are a few more examples of industries that could use custom audience ads:

  • A car company with email addresses of its customers could target “buy a new SUV” ads to people who bought an SUV 5+ years ago, while targeting “Find nearby charging stations” to those who recently bought an electric vehicle.
  • A bank company could target different ads to customers with savings of $5,000 versus customers with $5 million.
  • A Facebook game developer could plug in the user IDs of its gamers, targeting ads for its newest war-strategy games to those who played its old strategy game, while targeting ads for its latest shopping game to users who played its fashion game.
  • A B2B vendor could submit a file of the phone numbers of its biggest clients and target ads for a premium service to them to increase revenue, while targeting its newest clients with ads for discounts to increase loyalty.
  • Instead of targeting general ads to all its Facebook fans encouraging return visits, Amazon could advertise specific products to segments of its customers who’ve bought similar things.

Precise targeting of segments of existing customers like this could produce huge return on investment for advertisers and command high ad rates for Facebook. CRM-equipped companies might spend more when they know who they’re reaching, and that could help Facebook please Wall Street with higher revenues. In fact, it’s such a smart idea to plug CRM into ads that I bet we’ll see more advertising platforms integrate like this soon.

Read more here.

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Zscaler finally accepts VC dollars — and gets $38M

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Internet Security, Investments, mobile 2.0, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital, Venturebeat, Web 2.0, Wireless, Wireless 2.0, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 30, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Article from GigaOm.

Zscaler a four-year-old startup that has bootstrapped its business by providing a new form of security designed for a mobile and cloud-dependent workforce, has raised $38 million in first-time financing. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and an unnamed strategic investor.

Zscaler has been fairly successful in its four years building a significant base of clients including Crutchfield Corporation, La-Z-Boy and Telefonica. The company’s software as a service is hosted in more than 100 data centers around the world and essentially protects a company’s web traffic. It does this by routing requests through Zscaler’s software. But there’s no software for users to download on their clients and there’s also no appliance for corporate IT to worry about.

As the cloud and mobility do away with the perimeter model of security where a firewall may prevent harmful traffic from getting in and corporate secrets from getting out, Zscaler is one of several new companies trying to adapt security to a world where there is no perimeter. And even if the corporate IT thought it had a perimeter, the corporation may not own it or have a say in what runs on it. A perfect example of this might be the CEO’s iPad (a aapl).

Zscaler doesn’t solve all problems, but it’s certainly ahead of the pack in thinking about security in a forward-looking way. Other companies trying to address the changes in security required by BYOD and corporate access to the cloud applications are Bromium and CloudPassage. And by waiting to take on venture capital Zscaler’s CEO Jay Chaudhry has joined a select group of established companies who are finally succumbing to the lure of VC cash. For example Qualtrics, a ten-year-old company this year raised $70 million in its first round of outside investment. Another company, Code 42, avoided VC dollars for 11 years before this year raising $52.5 million.

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As Knight Capital Gains a Lifeline, It Loses Market-Making Duties

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, Distressed IP, Economy, Intellectual capital, International Finance, internet, Internet Security, Investments, Market research, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 6, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Article from NYTimes.

The Knight Capital Group confirmed on Monday that it had struck a $400 million rescue deal with a group of investors, staving off collapse after a recent trading mishap, even as the New York Stock Exchange temporarily revoked the firm’s market-making responsibilities.

The rescue package, which was arranged by the Jefferies Group, includes investments from TD Ameritrade and the Blackstone Group. Getco and Stifel, Nicolaus & Company were also involved.

“We are grateful for the support of these leading Wall Street firms that came together to invest in Knight,” Tom Joyce, the firm’s chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. “The array of participants in this capital infusion underscores Knight’s critical role in the capital markets.”

In a regulatory filing, Knight Capital said the investors agreed to purchase $400 million of the brokerage firm’s preferred stock. Under the terms of the deal, Knight will also expand its board by adding three new members.

The deal could provide the investors with more than 260 million shares of the firm, affording the investors the right to buy the shares at $1.50 a piece, according to the statement. Last week, before the trading blunder, the firm’s shares closed over $10.

The rescue deal will hugely dilute existing shareholders of the company. In mid-morning trading, shares of Knight Capital were down 24 percent.

The lifeline was assembled in the wake of Knight Capital’s disclosure of a $440 million trading loss. The loss stemmed from a technology error that occurred on Wednesday when the firm unveiled new trading software, a glitch that generated erroneous orders to buy shares of major stocks. The orders affected the shares of 148 companies, including Ford Motor, RadioShack and American Airlines, sending the markets into upheaval.

Knight Capital said it reached the deal on Sunday, and it expected to close the transaction on Monday. It was a rapid a recovery for a firm that just days ago was facing collapse.

Still, the firm faces significant challenges. The New York Stock Exchange said on Monday it “temporarily” reassigned the firm’s market-making responsibilities for more than 600 securities to Getco, the high-speed trading firm that also invested in Knight. Market makers buy and sell securities on behalf of clients.

The move, the exchange said in a statement on Monday, was a stop-gap measure needed until the investor deal was final. Once the recapitalization plan is complete, Knight will resume its duties.

“We believe this interim transition is in the best interests of investors, our listed issuers, market stability and efficiency, as well as Knight, as the firm finalizes its equity financing transaction,” Larry Leibowitz, chief operating officer of NYSE Euronext, said in the statement.

Knight Capital also faces heavy regulatory scrutiny. The Securities and Exchange Commission is examining potential legal violations as it pieces together the firm’s missteps.

The problems for Knight Capital began at the start of trading on Wednesday. The firm tweaked its computer coding to push itself onto a new trading platform that the New York Stock Exchange opened that day. Under this program, trades from retail investors shift to a special platform where firms like Knight compete to offer them the best price.

But when Knight’s new system went live, the firm “experienced a human error and/or a technology malfunction related to its installation of trading software,” the firm explained in the filing on Monday.

Chaos ensued. The error caused Knight to place unauthorized offers to buy and sell shares of big American companies, driving up the volume of trading and causing a stir among traders and exchanges.

Knight had to sell the stocks that it accidentally bought, prompting a $440 million loss. The loss drained Knight’s capital cushion and caused “liquidity pressures,” the firm said in the filing.

“In view of the impact to the company’s capital base and the resultant loss of customer and counterparty confidence, there is substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue as a going concern,” the filing said.

Knight and its chief executive, Thomas M. Joyce, began contacting potential suitors for parts of the business, and the firm consulted restructuring lawyers on a potential Chapter 11 filing, according to the people with direct knowledge of the matter.

But events soon turned in the firm’s favor.

The firm secured emergency short-term financing that allowed it to operate on Friday, and it used Goldman Sachs to buy at a discount the shares Knight had erroneously accumulated.

Some of the firm’s biggest customers, including TD Ameritrade and Scottrade, said that they had resumed doing business with Knight by Friday afternoon.

The firm capped its efforts to stay afloat on Sunday with the rescue deal. Knight expects to finalize the agreement on Monday morning and detail the financing terms in a regulatory filing.

“Knight’s financial position and capital base have been restored to a level that more than offsets the loss incurred last week,” Mr. Joyce said in a statement. “We thank our clients, employees and partners for their steadfastness during a brief yet difficult period and we are getting back to business as usual.”

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DOE funds 19 next-gen battery projects with $43M

Posted in Board Of Intellectual Capital, Business models, cleantech, Economy, Entrepreneurship, Gerbsman Partners, Intellectual capital, Investments, Market research, Startups, Strategy, Technology, Venture Capital, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on August 3, 2012| Leave a Comment »

Article from GigaOm.

The Department of Energy’s program that gives grants to early-stage energy projects — called ARPA-E — has allocated another $43 million for 19 battery projects, including grants for futuristic batteries made of new chemical mixes, using brand new architectures and utilizing nanotechnology. The ARPA-E program has been aggressively funding next-generation battery technologies over the years, and though these are small grants, the amount of innovation happening is substantial.

The funds go to projects that are very early stage, and are supposed to help bring disruptive R&D closer to commercialization. While Japanese and Korean conglomerates dominate the industry of producing small format lithium ion batteries for laptops and cell phones, these next-gen batteries are mostly targeted for electric cars and the power grid. Some of these projects also aren’t strictly traditional batteries, and a couple are flow batteries, which are large tanks of chemicals that flow into a containerized system and provide energy storage for the power grid (see Primus Power’s flow battery pictured).

Notable winners of the funds include big companies like Ford, GE, and Eaton, small startups like Khosla Ventures-backed Pellion, and projects out of the labs of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Battelle Memorial Institute, and Washington University in St. Louis.

Here’s some of the winners (for the full list of 19 go here):

  • Ford: $3.13 million for a very precise battery testing device that can improve forecasting of battery-life.
  • GE Global Research: $3.13 million for sensors thin-film sensors that can detect and monitor temperature and surface pressure for each cell within a battery pack.
  • Eaton: $2.50 million for a system that optimizes the power and operation of hybrid electric vehicles.
  • Pellion Technologies: $2.50 million for the startup’s long range battery for electric vehicles.
  • Sila Nanotechnologies: $1.73 million for the startup’s lithium ion electric car battery that it says has double the capacity of current lithium ion batteries.
  • Xilectric: $1.73 million to “reinvent Thomas Edison’s battery chemistries for today’s electric vehicles.”
  • Energy Storage Systems: $1.73 million for a flow battery for the grid, with an electrolyte made of low cost iron, and using a next-gen cell design.
  • Battelle Memorial Institute: $600K for a sensor to monitor the internal environment of a lithium-ion battery in real-time.

Read more here.

 

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