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• With 50M Users In Tow, OpenDNS Looks To Bring Enterprise Security Into The Mobile Era
• Base79, YouTube's Biggest Content Partner In Europe, Gets $10M From Peter Chernin, Others
• Projecteo Portable Projector Is The Natural Nostalgic Companion To Instagram
• Here's A BlackBerry 10 Device Next To An iPhone 5
• Motorola Details $100 Rebate Program For Devices Left Out Of The Jelly Bean Dish
• Samsung Not Interested In HTC-Style Settlement With Apple, Exec Says
• Still In Stealth, Origami Logic Gets $9.3M To Help Marketers Unfold And Make Sense Of Big Data
• Online Billing SaaS Billtrust Raises $25M From Bain Capital Ventures
• Startup Wise Guys Alumni, VitalFields, Raises €250K For Its Agricultural Early Warning System
• Serious Skype Security Flaw Prompts Password Reset Page Removal
• Big Data App Platform Continuuity Raises $10M From Battery, Andreessen Horowitz And Others
• Logitech Finally Outs OS X Support For Its Alert Security System
• SumUp, Another European Square, Expands To Italy, Spain And Holland, Now Covering 7 Countries 12 Weeks Into Launch
• Growing 100% Per Year, Mobile Ad Network Mojiva Raises Another $7M, And CEO Says This Is 'Just The 'Tip Of The Iceberg'
• Tapestry Raises $600K To Help Seniors Stay Connected With Their Family
• Undercutting Startups, Walmart Launches Food Subscription Service, Goodies.co, For $7 Per Month
• Nokia: We've Stooped In Smartphones To Conquer In Windows Phone 8 — "We Will Innovate, Out-Maneuver, Outsell Everyone"
• Gartner: Android Accounted For 72% Of Smartphone Sales In Q3, Overall Sales Of Mobile Handsets Down 3%
• Japanese Hardware Layoffs Continue: Panasonic To Cut 10K More Workers In The Next 5 Months
• Umeng, The Flurry of China, Says iOS Jailbreaking Is On The Decline

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With 50M Users In Tow, OpenDNS Looks To Bring Enterprise Security Into The Mobile Era	Top
Bring up the topic of "enterprise security platforms" around polite company, and you may be quickly shown the door. The subject can be boring, but the truth is that enterprise security writ large are critical, ideally making the Web a safer place for both businesses and consumers by policing malware, botnets, phishing and other malicious software. Of course, today businesses big and small are moving to the cloud, adopting services like Dropbox, Box and Google Apps in droves. In turn, employees are increasingly going mobile, both in where they work and how they work, as they now carry multiple phones, view documents on their iPads, and collaborate on projects hosted on these services outside of the office. Yet, while workforces (enterprise included) are increasingly remote, mobile and nomadic, security services haven't adapted to this change in user behavior. When employees go out on the road, for example, their network's security doesn't follow them.
Base79, YouTube's Biggest Content Partner In Europe, Gets $10M From Peter Chernin, Others	Top
As YouTube gets ready to make another round of investments into produced content for its video network, Base79, its largest partner in Europe with over 550 million views of its online video content per month, is picking up some investment of its own. The group is today announcing an investment of $10 million led by the Chernin Group, the holding company founded by media veteran Peter Chernin, along with participation from existing investor MMC Ventures. The funding brings the total raised by Base79 to $14.35 million.
Projecteo Portable Projector Is The Natural Nostalgic Companion To Instagram	Top
A new Kickstarter project getting underway today brings your Instagram photos to the way-back world of home picture projection, in a small, adorable package that suits perfectly the faux-vintage feel of Instagram photography. Projecteo is a very small slide film projector, which works with Instagram photos, by placing them on a single frame of 35mm Kodak film, with nine pics assembled on each.
Here's A BlackBerry 10 Device Next To An iPhone 5	Top
RIM is launching BlackBerry 10 in February 2013 with several devices. Little is known about these handsets but the pic here shows the touchscreen model next to an iPhone 5. Tantalizing, I know.
Motorola Details $100 Rebate Program For Devices Left Out Of The Jelly Bean Dish	Top
The Motorola non-Jelly Bean rebate program is finally here. Have a Motorola Android phone from 2011 or later that's not getting upgraded to Jelly Bean? Motorola will take the phone back and give you a $100 gift card for your troubles. Motorola is saying sorry in the best possible way: with cash.
Samsung Not Interested In HTC-Style Settlement With Apple, Exec Says	Top
Samsung has "no intention" to follow the example of HTC and work out a settlement with legal and consumer tech rival Apple, according to Samsung Electronics Head of Mobile J.K. Shin. He said so to reporters today, the AFP reports, when asked if Samsung might pursue a settlement similar to the 10-year cross-licensing agreement announced by Apple and HTC this past weekend.
Still In Stealth, Origami Logic Gets $9.3M To Help Marketers Unfold And Make Sense Of Big Data	Top
Talk to an engineer, and the world is full of big data promise. But those who work at the front end the tech industry -- business development, sales and marketing people, for example -- have largely been cut out of that conversation. That appears slowly to be changing, with the rise of startups that are dedicated to figuring out how to harness big data in a way that is digestible to those who would benefit from accessing it, but have not been able to up to now. One of these, Origami Logic, today is announcing that it is picking up a Series A round of $9.3 million to develop an analytics platform -- still in stealth mode -- that aims to give marketers access to big data in a way that is digestible and usable by them specifically.
Online Billing SaaS Billtrust Raises $25M From Bain Capital Ventures	Top
Billtrust, a company that provides a SaaS to manage online billing for companies, has raised $25 million in from Bain Capital Ventures. This brings Billtrust's total funding raised to $30 million.
Startup Wise Guys Alumni, VitalFields, Raises €250K For Its Agricultural Early Warning System	Top
VitalFields, the Estonian startup that wants to help farmers make better use of data and act as a warning system for disease and pest issues, has raised a €250,000 (approx. $318k) seed round led by SmartCap, the venture capital arm of the Estonian Development Fund, in addition to participation from two Estonian early stage investors, Arvi Tavasti valduse, and Wiser Financial Advisors.
Serious Skype Security Flaw Prompts Password Reset Page Removal	Top
Skype faced a fairly serious security threat today, thanks to a flaw in the system that allowed people to sign up with email addresses already in use by other users and then force password resets for any accounts associated with those emails. Reset tokens could be delivered to the Skype client itself, meaning people didn't need access to email accounts to reset passwords associated with them.
Big Data App Platform Continuuity Raises $10M From Battery, Andreessen Horowitz And Others	Top
Continuuity, a company that provides a big data platform as a service for developers, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Battery Ventures and Ignition Partners. Andreessen Horowitz, Data Collective and Amplify Partners also participated in the rounds. This brings the company's total funding to $12.5 million.
Logitech Finally Outs OS X Support For Its Alert Security System	Top
Logitech launched the Alert video security system in August of 2010. It now works with Macs. About damn time, Logitech.
SumUp, Another European Square, Expands To Italy, Spain And Holland, Now Covering 7 Countries 12 Weeks Into Launch	Top
The landgrab among Square-influenced mobile payment companies in Europe continues apace: in today's development, SumUp -- which launched in August with more than $20 million in backing from b-to-v Partners, Shortcut Ventures, Tengelmann Ventures and Klaus Hommels, the early Skype, Facebook and Xing investor -- today is announcing that it is opening for business in Italy, Spain and The Netherlands, with sales offices opening in Milan, Madrid and Amsterdam. This takes the total number of markets covered by SumUp to seven, including the UK, Ireland, Germany and Austria. SumUp says that now has the largest international footprint of any of the mobile point-of-sale operators in terms of countries.
Growing 100% Per Year, Mobile Ad Network Mojiva Raises Another $7M, And CEO Says This Is 'Just The 'Tip Of The Iceberg'	Top
Mobile advertising network Mojiva has raised another $7 million in funding from current investors in the company, part of a larger raise the company is in the process of closing to hire more people, build more data layers into its network, and expand its new tablet advertising network. The amount was first revealed in a Form D filed with the SEC, and we have confirmed the details with David Gwozdz, the CEO of the company. He tells us that "this Form D is the tip of the iceberg, the first bit to a larger amount to be drawn as we need the funds along the way." The company, which he says is currently growing at a rate of 100% per year and is approaching break-even on its balance sheet, has also closed a credit line with SVB bank to allow us to finance additional working capital. The amount of that credit line was not disclosed.
Tapestry Raises $600K To Help Seniors Stay Connected With Their Family	Top
Many countries are facing a demographic 'time bomb', or so we're told, as people are living longer than ever before. As a result, 'seniors' make up a significant (and growing) proportion of the market, and it's no wonder that startups are beginning to take notice with products and services designed specifically for them. Enter: Tapestry (not to be confused with a number of companies/products of the same name), whose Android app, web service, and Tapestry tablet, aims to make it easier for seniors stay to connected to family members online. Today, the company has announced that it's raised a $600k seed round led by the Sydney Angels group of investors.
Undercutting Startups, Walmart Launches Food Subscription Service, Goodies.co, For $7 Per Month	Top
Walmart’s experimentation with subscription-based commerce continues today, with the public launch of Goodies.co, a food subscription service featuring boxes of sample-sized treats shipped monthly. The service is the latest to emerge from @WalmartLabs, the retailer’s Silicon Valley-based innovation lab focused on quickly building, launching, and testing new business models that may or may not make their way to Walmart.com or Walmart stores at a later date. @WalmartLabs, which operates something like a startup within Walmart, has grown over the years through the acquisitions of other startups, including Kosmix, OneRiot, Grabble, and Small Society. The group is often focused on e-commerce initiatives, like Shopycat, its gift recommendation service launched last year. Shopycat, incidentally, is one of @WalmartLabs’ successes – the Facebook-based gift suggestions it offers are now making their way to Walmart.com just ahead of this holiday season. Another lab innovation, Polaris, is also now the search engine on Walmart.com. News that Walmart would begin testing a subscription-based commerce offering called Goodies.co was first revealed this May, with the expectation of it launching within “a month or two.” However, the service ended up launching its beta in August instead. Initially tested by Walmart employees, then later spreading further through word-of-mouth, Goodies.co now reaches 3,000 users across the U.S. Goodies customers pay just $7 per month for a box of six to eight sample products, which would otherwise retail for $15. The price includes tax and shipping, making it one of the cheapest e-commerce food subscription services on the market today. To compare, the startup Love With Food, a graduate from the 500 Startups accelerator, charges $10 per month for a box with eight items. Pop-Up Pantry’s meal-focused box starts at $17 per month, and healthy snacks service Sprigbox begins at $26.95 per month, for a box of 10-13 items. Like others in this space, Walmart’s box includes a variety of unique, gourmet products, a mix of artisanal, organic, gluten-free, or other healthy items, sourced both from Walmart’s extensive vendor community, as well as from newer companies just emerging on the market. For now, Walmart isn’t aiming to profit from the subscription service so much as it’s interested in testing the viability of the subscription business model itself, still largely unproven. According to @WalmartLabs’ VP of Products, Ravi Raj, his team is “fairly confident” that they can drive tens of thousands of customers to the new service. “But it will start to get meaningful for Walmart once we
Nokia: We've Stooped In Smartphones To Conquer In Windows Phone 8 — "We Will Innovate, Out-Maneuver, Outsell Everyone"	Top
Nokia is running ads in Europe for its Windows Phone 8 devices that are emblazoned with the legend 'everyone loves a comeback'. But with Google's Android OS now the undisputed champion of a market Nokia once dominated, the company has got its work cut out to turn things around. Can it battle back? Nokia's VP of Western Europe, Conor Pierce, is talking tough.
Gartner: Android Accounted For 72% Of Smartphone Sales In Q3, Overall Sales Of Mobile Handsets Down 3%	Top
Gartner has this morning published its numbers on the performance of the mobile handset industry in Q3. The topline figure is that the mobile industry overall continues to see pressure from the wider economic downturn, and the gradual move away from cheaper, low-end feature devices: overall sales of 428 million units for the quarter are 3% down on the same quarter last year. But smartphones continue to outshine that by quite a lot: they are up by 47% to 169 million units. In other words, smartphones accounted for about 40% of all mobile device sales in Q3.
Japanese Hardware Layoffs Continue: Panasonic To Cut 10K More Workers In The Next 5 Months	Top
The Japanese consumer electronics industry continues to feel the squeeze in the economy, with mass layoffs of workers representing one of the more painful effects. In the latest development, Panasonic Corp. says it will reduce its workforce by 10,000 employees by the end of this fiscal year, which completes in March 2013. The company had already warned that it will post losses of $10 billion for the full year, because of write-offs in its mobile, solar panel and lithium battery businesses.
Umeng, The Flurry of China, Says iOS Jailbreaking Is On The Decline	Top
Here's some good news for mobile app makers looking to enter the Chinese market. Not only are there a whopping 200 million Android and iOS devices in circulation in China, jailbreaking is down from last year. Umeng, the biggest Chinese mobile app analytics company, says it is detecting that only 42.4 percent of mainland iOS devices are jailbroken, down from 51 percent in the second quarter of 2011. Yes, that figure still sounds like an unbelievable share, but this is China. Umeng says jailbreaking is down because Apple started allowing consumers to use local bank cards over the last year in the app store.

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