Lookout Expands Mobile Security App To Browsing; Lands Marketing Deal With Sprint.

"Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a new feature today that will protect users from online threats while browsing on a mobile phone."

San Francisco-Based Lookout Mobile Security Raises $19.5 Million.

"Lookout Mobile Security, a San Francisco-based developer of cloud-based smartphone security services, said it has raised $19.5 million in its third round of funding, led by Index Ventures. Accel Partners and Khosla Ventures also participated in the round, which the company -- which currently boasts more than four million registered users -- will use to expand its offerings."

Sophisticated Android trojan discovered in China, warns security firm.

"Firm Lookout Mobile Security is warning of a new, sophisticated, Android-focused piece of malware that has been found in China. The security company warns that the trojan, dubbed Geinimi, can 'compromise a significant amount of personal data on a user’s phone and send it to remote servers.' The malicious code is, currently, only found in third-party application stores attached to republished versions of legitimate applications."

Lookout Goes Pro With Paid Version Of Smartphone Security Software.

"Lookout, a company that offers security services for a number of smartphones, is launching a premium service today. Lookout’s web-based, cloud-connected applications for Android, Windows Mobile and BlackBerry phones helps users from losing their phones and identifies and block threats on a consumer’s phone. Users simply download the software to a device, and it will act as a tracking application and a virus protector much like security software downloaded to a computer...

In conjunction with the new paid offering, Lookout is also announcing that it has 3 million users (adding one million users only two months) and was recently featured in a Verizon Wireless commercial (see below). As we’ve written in the past, Lookout’s business is flourishing as smartphone adoption continues to rise. Users are becoming more aware of the security risks associated with the increased data and application usage on these devices."

Smartphone Security Startup Lookout Crosses Two Million Users.

"Lookout, a company that offers security data backup services for smartphones, is growing rapidly. Less than two months after the startup surpassed one million users, the company has crossed the 2 million registered users mark. It took just over six months to reach 1 million users...

Lookout also recently launched the App Genome Project which identifies applications that carry the same characteristics of established dangerous applications, quickly isolate them, and protect users. To date, Lookout has analyzed over 300,000 apps.

In less than one year in business, the company has also found lost or stolen phones for users more than 700,000 times, with a phone found every 15 seconds over the past two months. And Lookout has backed-up over 130 million photos and backed-up over 625 million contacts."

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"In the past, I’ve used a solution similar to Lookout called WaveSecure, which was recently purchased by McAfee and is now owned by Intel as Intel agreed to buy McAfee last month for $7.68 billion."