Local business reviews site Angie's list of the files for an IPO of $ 75 million

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After Jive IPO filing, $ 100 million yesterday, local business reviews site Angie's list is throwing its hat into the ring, S-1 this afternoon. Volia raises $ 75 million, according to the filing.

As we wrote in the past, Angie's list offers consumers the ability to analyse and evaluate physicians, contractors and service companies on the Internet. The company started in 1995, with an emphasis on House, yard and car services in the field, is located at the intersection of local search, user generated content and subscription based services. Today, Angie's list has created nearly 100 million dollars from battery ventures, t. Rowe Price, city investment group, Cardinal enterprises and others.

June 30, 2011, the company offered its service for paying members of 170 local markets in the United States. Angie's list has grown to 820000 paid membership, whose growth was primarily due to its national advertising strategy. However, shelling out big bucks for the maketing advertising, marketing expenses for the acquisition of new members in 2010, and, accordingly, 30.2 million and $29,2 million in the first six months of the year 2011.

In 2010, and six months ended June 30, 2011 year, Angie list income amounted to $ 59.0 to $38,6 million, respectively. In the same period, the company had a net loss of $27,2 million and $25,8 million, respectively.

The company alleges that since 1995, the site gathers feedback from 2.2 million of local services suppliers from members.

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Social enterprise company Jive files for IPO of $ 100 m; 2010 Year income totaled $ 46 m

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Social Enterprise giant Jive has just filed its S-1 and increase as much as $ 100 million in hosting.

Modeled to offer Facebook such opportunities to enterprises, Jive Software combines computing with social interactions offer full-fledged social networking for business. Suite Help business collaborate on various tasks, including discussions, communication, exchange of documents, blogs, polls, and social networking features and more.

Some of the key information in respect to revenue. For the period ended December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010, and for the six months ended June 30, 2011, Jive, raising $ 16.9 million income million, $ 46.3 million and 34.0 million, respectively.

The company actually took the loss in 2008, 2009, 2010 and a six-month period ending in June 2011. Loss appears to actually increase — the company lost $ 27.6 million in 2010, and $30,6 million this year. The company says that it continues to invest revenues back into infrastructure, development and sales and marketing and expects that operating expenses increased significantly.

Jive also said that he was switching their clients DATA from third-party service provider for the blend Fund managed by Jive's own network operations, which will require significant capital.

From June 30, 2011, Jive has 635 corporate clients, including Hewlett-Packard Company, SAP AG, T-Mobile and UBS AG, with more than 15 million users. Currently, the company had 358 staff on June 30, 2011 year.

Jive, said that he plans to use proceeds from the offering to repay outstanding loans (20 million United States dollars) and for general corporate purposes, including working capital and potential acquisitions.

From the point of view of the Jive raised total investment 57 million dollars and the company's largest investor Sequoia Capital owns more than a third of Jive (36 per cent). Kleiner Perkins owns 14.24% Jive.

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Hackers in your window, so that hide your children hide your files

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Remember when Google was hacked by Chinese spies about 18 months ago? Well, that just scratched the surface of some of the more serious and persistent hacking operations over the past few years. In a detailed blog post that is both instructive and brilliant piece of marketing, McAfee, Vice President of threat research Dmitry Alperowitsch set out the details of the operations of the shadowy rat (remote access), an ongoing series of invasions of the computer system, which began back in 2006 and compromised 72 organizations, including the United Nations, the International Olympic Committee, the world anti-doping agentstvaOboronnyh contractors, United States, federal and State Government agencies, the United States national security think tank, tech companies and even regrettable computer security firm "(presumably McAfee competitor).

The magnitude of the attacks made things like recent Sony Playstation or News Corp hacks look like children's toys. Trust indicators point to a "State actor" perhaps China (McAfee post does not define any State actor, he suspects, but China has long been here).

Alperowitsch quite frighteningly says:

I am convinced that every company in every conceivable industry with significant size and value of intellectual property and trade secrets has been compromised (or will soon), the vast majority of victims are rarely intrusion detection or its consequences. In fact, I share the entire set of Fortune Global 2000 firms into two categories: those who know they were compromised and those who don't yet know.

. . . What we have seen in the past five or six years has been nothing short of historically unprecedented transfer of wealth — secret secrets (including from sensitive government networks), source code, databases, e-mail archives, plans and intelligence details for new oil and gas fields in the auctions, shopping, legal contracts, SCADA configuration, schema design and much more "decreased truck" from the numerousmostly Western companies and disappeared in the growing electronic archives have opponents.

McAfee learned all those details with manage your server "& control" Command, sending exploits. Shady rat operation led to the long gathering confidential information from government agencies, companies and international organizations. Alperowitsch explains how it works:

Compromises were standard procedure for these types of targeted incursions: spear Phishing email containing the attacker is sent to the person with the right level of access in the enterprise and to exploit the opening on an unpatched system will initiate download malware implant. Malware will perform and trigger a backdoor communication channel to the Web Server Command control & and interpret the instructions coded into hidden comments embedded in the code of a Web page. It will be quickly followed by lively jumps on the infected computer and we begin to rapidly escalate privileges and laterally move within the Organization to establish a new permanent footholds through additional compromised machines running malware implants, as well as the orientation for the quick exfiltration of key data they came for.

Do you feel scared and vulnerable yet? Well I am sure that McAfee will sell your company's service, which will make you feel safer security monitoring. But you really will be any safer if public Hackers want access to the files? They could climb in your windows right now.

McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE) makes the antivirus and security software. Their main brand, McAfee VirusScan, but other brands are the IntruShield, Entercept and Foundstone.

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