Geeky Startup OpenDNS Gets More Than 50,000 New Users After David Pogue Writeup
Here's the power of David Pogue- and Walt Mossberg-types: In the last week or so after getting a wet kiss from the NYT's Pogue, geeky tech startup OpenDNS has signed up more than 50,000 new accounts,...
View ArticleFoursquare, SecondMarket, Knewton, And Spotify Honored By World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum, best known for its annual conference in Davos, announced its annual Technology Pioneers awards today, given out to the tech startups around the world that the Forum deems the...
View ArticleOpenDNS Plans Its First Big Growth Push With $4.5 Million In Fresh Cash
Geeky tech startup OpenDNS -- whose service is designed to make Internet access faster and safer -- got its first 20 million users mostly by funding itself with cash flow.Now the company is planning...
View ArticleAnother Problem For Facebook Email: Many Companies Still Block Facebook At...
Here's another challenge for Facebook's email/messaging service, which is rolling out: Many companies still block their employees from accessing Facebook at the office.And if you can't check your...
View ArticleNew Law Would Let The U.S. Government Censor The Internet: Here's Why That's...
The Dangers Of COICAIt’s hard for me to be sympathetic to the entertainment industry and its frustration with online piracy. For the last decade industry executives have consistently focused on using...
View ArticleHow To Speed Up Your Internet Connection In Just 5 Minutes
We've been huge fans of OpenDNS for years now. (Ever since David Pogueturned us on to the service). It's a quick and easy way to tweak your computer's network settings for faster, more secure...
View ArticleMASTER OF HIS DOMAIN: See The Awesome Office That OpenDNS's CEO Designed Himself
OpenDNS is an enterprise-security startup whose business has doubled year-over-year for the past two years. It just moved into new offices in San Francisco's SoMa district right by the Caltrain...
View ArticleThis Guy Was Fired As CEO From His Own Company, Worked His Way Back, And Just...
OpenDNS has landed a $35 million investment from Cisco and other big names to help it stop some of the worst kinds of hack attacks on the internet. That brings its total raised to $51.3 million.This...
View ArticleCisco pays $635 million for a security company with 50 million users (CSCO)
Cisco has announced the acquisition of OpenDNS, a ten-year-old Internet security company, for $635 million. To understand what OpenDNS does, it's first important to understand a fundamental part of how...
View ArticleHe sold his last company to Cisco for $635 million. Now, he's the newest...
Andreessen Horowitz has hired David Ulevitch as its newest general partner.Ulevitch is best known as the CEO of OpenDNS, which he sold to Cisco for $635 million in 2015. He stayed with Cisco for three...
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