Sentence examples for mobile security start-up from inspiring English sources

ZenPrise, a mobile security start-up, was acquired last week by Citrix, a maker of virtualization software.

Citrix will announce Wednesday that it has bought Zenprise, a mobile security start-up company whose backers include Greylock Partners, Shasta Ventures, the Mayfield Fund, Rembrandt Venture Partners and Bay Partners.

The app, Personal Guardian from mobile security start-up SmrtGuard, lets users send an all-points S O S by triggering a silent alarm to call to 911, or any other number, as well as sending an e-mail, text message or Twitter post with your location.

Last year, it acquired NetWitness, another security start-up.

Mr. Chandna of Greylock said the bulk of security start-ups that solicit his firm fall into one of four categories: mobile security, authentication, intrusion detection and "big data" security companies.

Security start-ups have also become red-hot takeover targets.

EMC is not the only tech giant chasing security start-ups.

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After a short spell with mobile start-up Refresh Mobile, he spent three years helping Nokia to launch its mobile advertising network, rising from leading the UK sales team to heading the sales efforts in EMEA.

Mobile payment start-up Square, Google's mobile payment product, Google Wallet, and Isis, a joint mobile payment venture by AT&T, T-Mobile and Verizon, all recently entered the mobile payment space.

In contrast, Google, a chief Microsoft rival, also bought a mobile technology start-up — Android.