WOT Reaches Another Milestone: 30 Million Downloads
Community-powered safe surfing tool WOT reached another milestone this past Monday by passing 30 million downloads. The number of downloads has effectively doubled during the past 12 months and the latest figure checks off a great year for the Finnish company - a year that also included new partnerships with social media giant Facebook and Russian email provider Mail.ru.
WOT Partners With Kiosked For A Secure Online Shopping Experience
Security is a prerequisite in the real world and perhaps more so in the digital space. And with security online, comes WOT that has been ensuring a safe browsing experience for the millions of users online. WOT announced another major partnership earlier, this time with Kiosked.
Kiosked is an online service that transforms online content into a marketplace. The service provides consumers with access to more information as well as making both online and offline purchases easy. Kiosked was also one of the Arctic15 finalists this year.
Mikko Hyppönen Of F-Secure On Startups In Online Security
We had a brief chat with Mikko Hyppönen, the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure, the Finland based online security company. As he's one of the most vocal representatives of F-Secure online, we wanted to ask him how he feels about the startup potential in online security space. While there are a few really good and interesting companies around, he mentioned that overall there are surprisingly few companies working with online security.
You can follow him on twitter @mikkohypponen or through the F-Secure weblog.
Facebook Partners With WOT To Protect Its 700 Million Users
Facebook and Web of Trust (WOT) have today announced that they enter into partnership to protect Facebook's users with the WOT technology. WOT is a Finnish startup that has more than 20 million users globally and these users have rated more than 31 million websites. In essence, it's a crowdsourced way to rate malicious and threatening websites that aim to harm users. The WOT technology will be rolled out as a new feature in Facebook in the US today at 8pm EET and globally in about a week's time. This is a huge win for the Finnish company.
WOT Continues To Grow, Crosses 20 Million Downloads
Web of Trust or WOT, the safe surfing software that protects surfers from malicious links, spyware and spam continues its growth that has been exponential in the last one year especially. The service recently crossed the 2 million registered user mark and out comes another update. The Web of Trust went past the 20 million download mark, quite significant since it took only a year to add another 10 million.
Interview With Vesa Perälä On Web Of Trust Lawsuit
We had reported about the lawsuit against Web of Trust (WOT) last week and had mentioned that we will be inquiring Vesa Perälä, CEO of WOT about the same. While talking about the lawsuit alone would have been a repetition, hence we thought of providing a well rounded information on WOT as well. I was quite impressed with its growth, its community is expected to grow to 50 million by the end of the current year.
Community Warnings Lend Web Of Trust A Lawsuit
It has barely been a couple of weeks when we last reported of WOT achieving a milestone with 2 million registered users and there is one more news already. The Web of Trust might have grabbed attention of all those users but it appears to be in hot waters right now.
WOT Achieves Another Milestone With 2 Millionth Registered Users
Web of Trust or WOT, the safe surfing software that protects surfers from malicious links, spyware and spam is growing bigger by the day. WOT achieved another milestone on 28th January, 2011 when it announced the registration of its 2 millionth users. Web of Trust had only recently released the WOT plugin for WordPress.
Innovate!100 List Features Many Nordic And Baltic Startups
Guidewire Group has announced on 3rd of December the Innovate!100 list. The list features, according to the blog post, the 100 most innovative and fastest growing startups from around the world. The participants have been chosen based on the 30 or so Pitch Slam contests which were held on five continents over a duration of 10 months.
The Invisible Layer of Web Of Trust
I've been using Web of Trust's (WOT later) Firefox plugin for a while now and I have to say it has become extremely useful in my day-to-day usage. There are some interesting reasons behind it and I thought I should discuss this with our readers. WOT is a service we've blogged on ArcticStartup a few times and the previous mention was Monty's investment into the company.
I decided to take their Firefox plugin into use sometime back to see if it was any good. Today, it has become an inseparable part of my web surfing experience. I see a lot of potential in the company and the direction it is headed. Why is it so? Let me explain.
MySQL Founder Invests In WOT
Esa Suurio, one of the guys behind Web of Trust or WOT being developed by Against Intuition, tweeted about Michael "Monty" Widenius' investment into their company. Web of Trust produces a browser addon that keeps you acknowledged of unsafe websites, online scams, spyware, etc. The service works in a crowdsourced manner where by other web users rate websites and let other webusers know of unsafe web destinations. Esa Saario also told in his tweet that the addon has now been downloaded more than 3 million times.
Monty Widenius is one of the founders behind MySQL. He sold the company in January 2008 to SUN Microsystems for a billion dollars. It is one of the all time success stories of Nordic technology startups. Monty invested through his Open Ocean -venture company. The amount of the investment was not disclosed, but he will be taking a board of directors' seat with the investment. WOT does not disclose how the money will be spent.
WOT wants to make browsing safer
WOT, or Web of Trust, is a so called 'safe surfing' software that warns the users of ill websites, namely scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites.
WOT wants to primarily see itself as a community website. The service gets it's information from other trusted sources that gather related data as well as from its user community. WOT software can be downloaded for Firefox (as I did) and for IE.
The company boast some impressive figures. According to WOT's CEO, Esa Suurio, it has 20 million rated website and broke 1 million user downloads during August 2008.
When asked about WOT's business model, Suurio says that they are still working on the best way to monetize the service, but that 20 million rated websites is clearly an asset, which the company is ready to lincense to third parties. Suurio adds that WOT can also act as a marketing platform. For this particular use new concepts that fit WOT's philophy and its community model are under way.
Before starting WOT Esa Suurio, a Finnish serial software entrepreneur, founded a local Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing house InfoManager and led the company for about ten years before a successful exit in August 2001 -just before the hardest downturn in the dot-com bubble years.
