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| Sep 6, 2012 | Toll fraud: Lurking thieves steal money through your texts | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Toll fraud — no, it’s not driving through the E-ZPass lane when you pay cash. It’s a growing threat to your smartphone, and it’s one of... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | Nomophobia Attacks! Lookout Says 74% Of Users Panic Over Phone Loss; 58% Of Us Can’t Stay Away From Mobiles For More Than An Hour | The swing to smartphones and more immersive experiences using apps is having a major knock-on effect with how mobile handsets now figure in our lives. The Mobile Mindset Study, a new survey from mobile security developers Lookout using data... |
| Jun 21, 2012 | Nearly 40 percent of you check your phone on the potty | Growing up, “no phones at the dinner table” was only starting to be a thing. Now, as Lookout Mobile points out in its latest study, we can hardly keep phones out of any place, including church, the bathroom, the bed, anywhere.
Lookout Mobil... |
| May 15, 2012 | Privacy: Facebook and Google baking it in, but will startups follow the recipe? | Intel Capital's Christine Herron, Google's Anne Toth, Facebook's Rob Sherman and Lookout's Kevin Mahaffey at PII2012.
High-profile privacy breaches have increasingly been making headlines, putting the issue further onto ... |
| May 3, 2012 | Android users targeted in drive-by download attacks | Photograph by blog.mylookout.com reader comments 86 with 55 posters participating
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| May 2, 2012 | Watch out, Android users: Some web sites are auto-downloading malware to your phone | Lookout Mobile has detected websites aimed at mobile devices to distribute malware.
This type of attack — or drive-by download — happens on a website infected with malware. When a user loads the site, it automatically triggers a malware dow... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Lookout Mobile hooks up with Deutsche Telekom to protect European phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Europe mobile phones are getting a boost of safety today, as mobile security company Lookout Mobile partners with Deutsche Telekom to a... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | Windows Phone Exec Gavin Kim Has Left Microsoft For Security-Focused NQ Mobile | Gavin Kim certainly knows how to keep things interesting. After spending years at Samsung and winding up as the company’s VP of Content and Services, Kim jumped ship to take point on Microsoft’s Windows Phone marketing efforts only to resig... |
| Apr 23, 2012 | 20M Users Strong, Lookout Partners With Deutsche Telekom To Bring Mobile Security Apps To Europe | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is continuing its international expansion to Europe with a strategic partnership with European telecommunications giant. Deutsche Telekom. Financial term... |
| Apr 13, 2012 | $7 million worth of phones will be lost today [infographic] | Not a day passes by without a couple infographics dropped in my inbox and somehow I just don't get around to posting them. My bad, since they can be fun and informative. Granted the producers hope for a little promotion along the way, ... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Lookout and T-Mobile bring you phones that will scream if lost | Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile are teaming up today to bring you a unique security feature in mobile phones: custom Scream tones.
With the new Scream tones you can try to pinpoint a missing smartphone on a map and then activate a loud... |
| Apr 10, 2012 | Lookout and T-Mobile bring you phones that will scream if lost | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lookout Mobile Security and T-Mobile are teaming up today to bring you a unique security feature in mobile phones: custom Scream tones.... |
| Mar 31, 2012 | How Android and iOS became smartphone superpowers (infographic) | Today, half of U.S. mobile consumers own smartphones. But five years ago, before Apple and Google turned the smartphone world upside down and before “Angry Birds” were associated with feathery fowl dispensing poop from above, the world was ... |
| Mar 31, 2012 | How Android and iOS became smartphone superpowers (infographic) | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Today, half of U.S. mobile consumers own smartphones. But five years ago, before Apple and Google turned the smartphone world upside do... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Lost phones will cost consumers $30B in 2012, and other facts about our butterfingers | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lost smartphones may cost consumers $30 billion this year if those phones are not recovered, says mobile security software company Look... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Lookout Predicts Americans Lose $30 Billion in Smartphones a Year | We’ve all done it. You step out on the street after paying for your coffee at Starbucks or handing the cab driver a tip. Your first natural inclination is to reach in to your pocket, dig out your cellphone and call somebody and say, “hey, I... |
| Mar 22, 2012 | Lookout: Lost And Stolen Smartphones Will Cost Consumers Over $30B In 2012 | From personal experience, losing your phone (especially a smartphone) can be both frustrating and expensive. Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, has conducted a phone loss study, which reve... |
| Mar 21, 2012 | 10 disruptive individuals who are reshaping the mobile industry | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The mobile industry is at an exciting stage: There are enough smartphone customers that there’s a huge field of opportunity for device ... |
| Feb 23, 2012 | Lookout Debuts Ad Network Detector For Mobile Apps on Android | Ever wonder what ad networks your mobile apps are running? Today, Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing a new, free Android app that aims to provide transparency into ad networks... |
| Feb 15, 2012 | The Address Book Fiasco: Another Reason For Apple To Get Its Social Platform Right | After a week of confused coverage around which mobile app developers access user address books and how they do it, we are finally getting a product-level resolution. Apple says today (in time to beat back some inquiring congressmen) that it... |
| Feb 2, 2012 | Google Adds A New Security Layer To The Android Market… A “Bouncer,” If You Will | Android malware has been an issue over the past year. Granted, most of the numbers we see out of security software companies are inflated — including malicious apps from third-party sources and ignoring small download figures — but that’s n... |
| Jan 30, 2012 | Android Trojans downloaded by millions, still on Android Market | reader comments 96 with 59 posters participating, including story author
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Symantec last week identified 13 new malicious applications on the Android Market, saying the combi... |
| Jan 29, 2012 | “Malicious” Android apps are just aggresive advertising, says Lookout Mobile | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Last week Symantec reported 13 potentially malware-carrying Android applications, that it said may make up a family of botnets. Mobile ... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Lookout’s New App Visualizes Mobile Security Threats As They Are Detected Around The World | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is debuting a new Android app that lets you see mobile threats as they are detected around the world. Launched from Lookout Labs, the new app basically v... |
| Jan 24, 2012 | Lookout releases app that shows mobile threats as they happen | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile security company Lookout Mobile released a new app today to show just how many mobile threats exist.
The app, called Mobile Thre... |
| Jan 14, 2012 | A City Is A Startup: The Rise Of The Mayor-Entrepreneur | Editor’s note: This post is authored by guest contributor Jon Bischke. Jon is a founder of RG Labs and is an advisor to several startups. You can follow Jon on Twitter here.
On stage at last month’s Le Web conference Shervin Pishevar, a Man... |
| Dec 14, 2011 | Mobile malware will become profitable in 2012, PC attacks mirrored on the phone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Attacking smartphones with malware is to become a profitable business in 2012, according to a report by Lookout Mobile Security. Crimin... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Lookout’s 2012 Mobile Security Threat Predictions: SMS Fraud, Botnets And Malvertising | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is releasing its 2012 Mobile Malware Predictions, based on data collected from its Mobile Threat Network, a cloud-based network which constantly analyzes... |
| Dec 13, 2011 | Google pulls 22 apps from Android Market to prevent fraudulent charges | reader comments 112 with 47 posters participating
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| Dec 12, 2011 | 22 SMS Malware Apps Reach Android Market, Removed by Google | Android malware continues to evolve. The latest batch takes a two-pronged attack at users susceptible to downloading free games and can end costing victims a lot of money. Lookout Mobile Security reports that these apps, dubbed RuFraud, are... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Google removes 22 Android apps due to RuFraud mobile attack | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has removed 22 applications from its Android marketplace in the past week due to RuFraud, a new mobile threat aimed at European ... |
| Dec 12, 2011 | Google removes 22 Android apps due to RuFraud mobile attack | Google has removed 22 applications from its Android marketplace in the past week due to RuFraud, a new mobile threat aimed at European users that charges users for text messages.
Lookout Mobile, a security firm focused on smartphones, alert... |
| Dec 3, 2011 | Find out if your Android phone has Carrier IQ spyware with this app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Carrier IQ is an insanely invasive bit of software, and it’s on at least 100 million phones, entirely without the owners’ knowledge.
If... |
| Nov 9, 2011 | Lookout Brings Smartphone Security And Tracking App To Australia, Canada And The UK | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms, is expanding internationally with native apps in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom.
For background, Lookout’s web-based, cloud-connected applicati... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Startups battle it out for charity in Dodgeball Invitational (photo gallery) | Code-slinging warriors from 17 Silicon Valley startups met for a gridiron foam-dodgeball clash on Sunday. The games, which raised money for charity, were part of the Octocat Dodgeball Invitational and were hosted by code repository company ... |
| Oct 24, 2011 | Startups battle it out for charity in Dodgeball Invitational (photo gallery) | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Code-slinging warriors from 17 Silicon Valley sta... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Where Is the iPhone Malware? Lookout Releases iOS Security App | In the world of mobile malware, Android is the biggest target for malicious hackers. Nobody ever thinks of iOS as a target for hackers because the review process for the Apple App Store keeps most insidious apps on the outside, looking in. ... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Lookout Finally Brings Intelligent Smartphone Security And Tracking Application To iOS | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphone platforms has long catered to the mobile security need of Android, Windows Phone 7 and BlackBerry users but has not offered an iOS app. After two years of developme... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security releases app for iPhone | The company has amassed 12 million users with its Android app, now it branches out to iOS
Lookout Mobile Security made a splash with its security app for Android devices, drawing the attention of several big name investors, including Andree... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security finally launches iPhone security app | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
After two years of development, Lookout Mobile Security is launching a security app to protect iPhones. The app doesn’t protect against... |
| Oct 18, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security finally launches iPhone security app | After two years of development, Lookout Mobile Security is launching a security app to protect iPhones. The app doesn’t protect against malware, since Apple has handled that task pretty well. But it does protect users from other bad things ... |
| Sep 22, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security Sees $40M Financing |
Andreessen Horowitz led the round in smartphone security company. Current investors Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and Index Ventures also participated.
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| Sep 21, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security Closes $40M Funding | Lookout Mobile Security, a San Francisco, CA-based provider of smartphone security solutions, today announced the closing of a $40m funding.
The round was led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from existing investors Khosla Venture... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security raises $40M for smartphone security | Lookout Mobile Security has raised $40 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture fund co-led by Silicon Valley uber investor Marc Andreessen.
That’s a nice vote of confidence for San Francisco-based Lookout, ... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Android security Lookout raises $40 million to grow | Andreessen Horowitz leads large late-stage round in rapidly expanding mobile security company
Lookout Mobile Security, provider of security solutions for Android-based mobile devices, announced Wednesday that it has closed a $40 million Ser... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security raises $40M for smartphone security | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lookout Mobile Security has raised $40 million in a new round of funding led by Andreessen Horowitz, the venture fund co-led by Silicon... |
| Sep 21, 2011 | Andreessen Horowitz Leads $40M Round In Smartphone Security Company Lookout | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, has raised $40 million in new funding led by Andreessen Horowitz. Current investors Khosla Ventures, Accel Partners and Index Ventures also participated in the ro... |
| Aug 14, 2011 | McAfee launches anti-theft mobile app for the iPhone | McAfee, one of the leaders in PC antivirus software, is launching a consumer-focused anti-theft app for the iPhone today. The new McAfee WaveSecure helps users protect their privacy and data in case their iPhones are lost or stolen.
The new... |
| Aug 14, 2011 | McAfee launches anti-theft mobile app for the iPhone | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
McAfee, one of the leaders in PC antivirus software, is launching a consumer-focused anti-theft app for the iPhone today. The new McAfe... |
| Aug 5, 2011 | How Plan B found the Droid I was looking for | Photograph by Alexandru Pănoiu (Android illustration by Aurich Lawson) reader comments 155 with 107 posters participating
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| Aug 3, 2011 | Malware to hit 3 out of 10 Android users this year | A report finds app-based threats on the rise
If you thought your phone was safe, you, sir, were sorely mistaken. As we speak, your phone could be spying on you, getting access to all your secret passcodes, bank account information, and cred... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | The chance that you’ll hit an unsafe mobile link in the course of a year: 30 percent. | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile phone malware is everywhere. Over the course of a year, any one consumer has a 30 percent chance of clicking on an unsafe link, ... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | The chance that you’ll hit an unsafe mobile link in the course of a year: 30 percent. | Mobile phone malware is everywhere. Over the course of a year, any one consumer has a 30 percent chance of clicking on an unsafe link, such as a phishing attack, when they surf the web on a mobile phone, according to a new survey by Lookout... |
| Aug 2, 2011 | Lookout Report: Android Malware Has Increased Significantly Over Past 6 Months | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing the results of its Mobile Threat Report. The report is based on threat and security data from Lookout’s Mobile Threat Network, which includes data co... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Lookout Opens Up API, Partners With Verizon To Analyze Mobile Security Threats On V Cast App Store | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is unveiling a new mobile API today, which automates mobile threat detection and analysis.
For background, For background, Lookout’s web-based, cloud-connected ap... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security launches mobile threat protection with Verizon Wireless | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lookout Mobile Security has unveiled a way for mobile users to get automated protection from malware. It is partnering with Verizon Wir... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Mobile Security With a Data Mining Solution: Lookout Releases API for App Stores | Lookout Security wants to eradicate mobile malware before it gets a chance to really take flight. That is not an easy thing to do, but as opposed to malware that plagues PCs, malicious mobile programs are still in their nascent stages. That... |
| Jul 20, 2011 | Lookout Mobile Security launches mobile threat protection with Verizon Wireless | Lookout Mobile Security has unveiled a way for mobile users to get automated protection from malware. It is partnering with Verizon Wireless to deliver its Mobile Threat Network is Verizon Wireless, which will protect users of Verizon’s V C... |
| Jul 12, 2011 | Security App Aims to Keep Malware From Spreading Through iOS Devices | It seems that every other week there are reports about new malware targeting Android devices though the Android Market. To date, there have been no viruses, rootkits or Trojans that have been able to worm through the Apple App Store into us... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Lookout Stays A Step Ahead in Mobile Security, Releases Safe Browsing Feature | Mobile security startup Lookout is adding a new function to its suite of products today by releasing a “safe browsing” feature to its Android application. Lookout is also partnering with Sprint to make access to the application easy through... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Lookout Expands Mobile Security App To Browsing; Lands Marketing Deal With Sprint | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a new feature today that will protect users from online threats while browsing on a mobile phone.
For background, Lookout’s web-based, cloud-connecte... |
| Jun 15, 2011 | Lookout launches safe browsing for the mobile web | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lookout Mobile Security is launching an app that it says will make it safe to browse the web from a mobile device.
With the new Safe Br... |
| Jun 1, 2011 | 30+ New Malicious Apps Spotted In The Android Market | Over the holiday weekend, another batch of malicious apps were found in the official Android Market. According to the Lookout Security Blog (who, it should be disclosed, makes an anti-malware product for Android), at least 34 applications h... |
| May 31, 2011 | 30,000 to 120,000 Android Users Affected by New Variant of Droid Dream Malware | Between 30,000 and 120,000 users of Android devices are believed to have been affected by new mobile malware which has its roots in an earlier scourge known as Droid Dream. This variant, called Droid Dream Light, appears to have been create... |
| May 27, 2011 | Trilogy, Madrona back stealthy mobile security startup Mobilisafe | Two of Seattle’s top venture capital firms are tossing their support behind Mobilisafe, a stealthy Bellevue startup led by former T-Mobile software architects Giri Sreenivas and Dirk Sigurdson. Madrona Venture Group and Trilogy Equity Partn... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Security experts decipher malware that attacked Android phones | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Lookout Mobile Security has deciphered the DroidDream malware that managed to infect numerous apps on the Android Market. Google has ta... |
| Mar 7, 2011 | Security experts decipher malware that attacked Android phones | Lookout Mobile Security has deciphered the DroidDream malware that managed to infect numerous apps on the Android Market. Google has taken action to deal with DroidDream, but the risk of infection is still there given the wide diversity of ... |
| Mar 6, 2011 | More DroidDream Details Emerge: It was Building a Mobile Botnet | New details have emerged regarding the purpose behind the DroidDream malware that was found in over 50 applications in the Android Market last week. After a brief investigation, Google opted to use its “remote kill switch” this weekend to w... |
| Mar 2, 2011 | Dozens of Android apps pulled from market due to malware infections | Dozens of apps have been pulled from the Android Market because they have been infected with malware. The infection is one of the worst to hit the mobile market, which has been relatively safe from malware attacks compared to the constant b... |
| Mar 1, 2011 | Over 50 “DroidDream” Malware Apps Removed from Android Market | Over 50 applications found to contain malware were removed from the Android Market yesterday, after being downloaded approximately 50,000 times. The apps contained a type of malware called “DroidDream,” which was able to use exploit code to... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | China’s alternative Android Markets: lots of app choices, piracy, and security risks | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google hasn’t opened an Android Market in China, so a number of Chinese carriers, phone makers, and independent companies have opened t... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | When will Android apps outnumber iPhone apps? Mid-2012 | Apple has had a long head start in mobile apps over new archrival Google.
But new data shows that the number of Android apps has grown 127 percent since August and offerings in Google’s Android Market should outnumber the total for iPhone a... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Paid apps are on the rise in the maturing Android Market | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The Android Market used to be a disaster for paid apps, at least compared to the heavy preponderance of paid apps on Apple’s App Store.... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Paid apps are on the rise in the maturing Android Market | The Android Market used to be a disaster for paid apps, at least compared to the heavy preponderance of paid apps on Apple’s App Store.
But Android is catching up as its marketplace matured in the past six months. That’s important for Googl... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | Lookout: Android Market Growing Faster, But App Store Attracting More Developers | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is releasing a new study today examining the Android Market and Apple’s App Store for U.S. users. It’s worth a look—the report has a number of interesting data po... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | China’s alternative Android Markets: lots of app choices, piracy, and security risks | Google hasn’t opened an Android Market in China, so a number of Chinese carriers, phone makers, and independent companies have opened their own versions of the Android Market there. The result is a lot of app choices for Chinese users, but ... |
| Feb 16, 2011 | When will Android apps outnumber iPhone apps? Mid-2012 | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Apple has had a long head start in mobile apps over new archrival Google.
But new data shows that the number of Android apps has grown ... |
| Jan 10, 2011 | The London List – London startups exceeding $10m in annual revenues | Saul Klein is a partner at European VC firm Index Ventures, previously worked for Skype, co-founded Video Island and is founder of Seedcamp. In this guest post he responds to recent posts by TechCrunch US writer Paul Carr regarding the posi... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | Chinese Trojan discovered in Android games | An Android-based Trojan called "Geinimi" has been discovered in the wild, mobile security company Lookout now warns. The Trojan is capable of sending personal information to remote servers and exhibits botnet-like behavior, the se... |
| Dec 30, 2010 | Android Malware Being Distributed On Chinese Markets | There’s a new threat in town. And by town, I mean China. Malware authors have created a bit of code called Geinimi that hitchhikes on existing apps when they are redistributed on third-party markets. At the moment it doesn’t do much but lur... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Lookout Identifies Advanced Android Trojan (But You're Probably Safe) | The future of computing is mobile, and, unfortunately, the future of malware will probably lie there too. Well-funded mobile security startup Lookout has just posted a blog entry detailing what it calls “the most sophisticated Android malwa... |
| Dec 29, 2010 | Android trojan horse Geinimi spotted stealing user data in the wild | Another trojan horse for devices running Google’s Android mobile operating system — this one capable of stealing information and uploading it to remote servers — has been spotted on third-party Android application marketplaces.
The Geinimi ... |
| Dec 24, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 12/24/10 | Elevance, Lookout, LS9, Major League Gaming, Mass Relevance, Nasuni, PixelFish
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Mass Relevance, a social marketing company that just launched, secured nearly $2 million from the Floodgate Fund (formerly Maples Investments) and Au... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Lookout raises $19.5M for smartphone security | Mobile antivirus startup gets a third round from Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures
Smartphone security company Lookout has raised a $19.5 million third round of funding, led by Index Ventures with participation from existing investors Acce... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Lookout Mobile Security Raises $19.5M in Series C Funding | Lookout Mobile Security, a San Franicsco, CA-based cloud-based smartphone security, raised an additional $19.5m in Series C funding.
The round was led by new investor Index Ventures, with participation from Accel Partners and Khosla Venture... |
| Dec 23, 2010 | Lookout Finds $19.5M | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Lookout Mobile Security, a San Francisco startup specializing in cloud-based security for mobile phones, said today that it has raised $19.5 million in Series C financing. New... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | Four Million Users Strong, Lookout Raises $19.5M For Smartphone Security Software | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, has just raised $19.5 million in Series C funding led by Index Ventures with existing investor Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures participating in the round. This... |
| Dec 22, 2010 | To save your phone from hackers, Lookout raises $19.5M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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| Dec 22, 2010 | To save your phone from hackers, Lookout raises $19.5M | There’s a gold rush going on in security investments, and Lookout Mobile Security is cashing in on it. The smartphone security company is announced today it has raised $19.5 million in a third round of funding led by Index Ventures.
Securit... |
| Dec 2, 2010 | Car Jacker Busted 10 Minutes After The Heist Thanks To An Android App | It’s gettin’ hard out here for a car jacker, folks. It used to be that you just roll up, knock on a window, be threatening in one way or another, and bam — you’ve got a new and totally unearned ride.
Nowadays, though, you’ve got all this ne... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Lookout Launches Premium Security Suite for Android Devices | Mobile security and antivirus software maker Lookout is launching a premium version of its popular Android software on November 16th, via a solution called “Lookout Premium for Android.”
The new system includes additional privacy controls, ... |
| Nov 2, 2010 | Lookout Goes Pro With Paid Version Of Smartphone Security Software | Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a premium service today. Lookout’s web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones helps users from losing ... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | VCast Apps and Network APIs: Developer Perspectives | The big stories at Verizon Developer Community Conference 2010 (VDCC) are APIs and VCAST Apps for Day 1. Opening keynote talks and panels explored a range of topics that are on the minds of all mobile app developers.
Let’s take a closer loo... |
| Sep 22, 2010 | How to raise money from Sequoia Capital | Reasons to attend Splash: Hear lessons from entrepreneurs Peter Thiel, Kevin Hartz, Dick Costolo
Want to know what it takes to land funding from Sequoia Capital, one of the leading VCs in the Valley, having invested in Google, Yahoo, Zappos... |
| Sep 9, 2010 | Smartphone Security Startup Lookout Crosses Two Million Users | Lookout, a company that offers security data backup services for smartphones, is growing rapidly. Less than two months after the startup surpassed one million users, the company has crossed the 2 million registered users mark. It took just ... |
| Aug 11, 2010 | Facebook and Android face dangers from cyber attackers | Next-generation platforms are just as vulnerable to bugs and criminal hackers as other platforms. We’ve seen that in the past couple of days with both Facebook and Google’s Android operating system.
A bug in Facebook’s login system lets cyb... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Google declares suspicious Android wallpaper apps safe, lifts ban | Google has lifted a suspension on Android Market wallpaper apps that were caught sending users’ personal information overseas.
The wallpaper apps stirred controversy last week because the apps accessed mobile phone users’ personal informati... |
| Aug 4, 2010 | Google declares suspicious Android wallpaper apps safe, lifts ban | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Google has lifted a suspension on Android Market wallpaper apps that were caught sending users’ personal information overseas.
The wall... |
| Aug 1, 2010 | Highlights from Black Hat and Defcon | Unfortunately, we couldn’t be at Black Hat and Defcon in Las Vegas this week, but here’s our round-up of highlights from the two security events from around the web. Of course, if you look through the schedules for both events, there were d... |