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Mobile botnets are costing advertisers $1 billion in ad fraud, study shows – Fortune


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Mobile botnets are costing advertisers $ 1 billion in ad fraud, study shows
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Others redirected users through affiliate links to websites and other apps in the iOS and Android app stores. Forensiq said its research showed that more than 13% of total mobile app inventory was at risk, and 14% of all mobile apps on iOS, Android and …

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Mobile botnets are costing advertisers $1 billion in ad fraud, study shows … – Fortune


Fortune

Mobile botnets are costing advertisers $ 1 billion in ad fraud, study shows
Fortune
Others redirected users through affiliate links to websites and other apps in the iOS and Android app stores. Forensiq said its research showed that more than 13% of total mobile app inventory was at risk, and 14% of all mobile apps on iOS, Android and …

and more »

android botnet – read more

Blue Coat Systems gets flipped for $2.4 billion

Blue Coat Systems is being sold by one private equity firm to another for $ 2.4 billion as it is prepped to go public again after it was taken off the stock market in 2012.

The company, with a broad security portfolio including hardware, software and services, is being sold by Thoma Bravo LLC to funds advised by Bain Capital.

Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark

Blue Coat CEO Greg Clark

The purpose of the sale is to further grow Blue Coat’s line of products and services, “and help us prepare to return to the public markets,” said CEO Greg Clark. Blue Coat claims to have 400 of the Fortune 500 as its customers.

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Network World Tim Greene

Could AWS possibly be worth $50 billion?

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Speculating as to the he value of Amazon Web Services has been a parlor game for some time now, with the company expected to provide its answer next month. In the meantime, here’s what they’re saying at RW Baird, via a report on The Street:

Baird analysts upped its price target after assigning a stand-alone value of between $ 40 billion to $ 50 billion, or $ 95 per share, to Amazon Web Services, its cloud business segment.

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Network World Paul McNamara