November 26th, 2012

Web Of Trust, The Crowdsourced Safe Surfing Tool, Raises Further $1.3M Led By Inventure

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Web of Trust (WOT), the safe surfing tool/browser add-on which is powered by the crowd, has raised a fresh €1M (approx. ~$1.3M) led by Finland/China-based VC firm, Inventure. Also participating in the round is private investor, Risto Siilasmaa, and Finnish Industry Investment, a previous backer of the Helsinki-based company.

The new capital will be used for “additional product development” as… → Read More

May 12th, 2011

Facebook Partners Up With Web Of Trust To Warn Users About Malicious Links

Because Facebook is clearly concerned with user privacy, it’s partnered up with crowdsourced reputation management service Web Of Trust today in order give its population of almost 700 million users protection from links deemed “risky” by the Web Of Trust community.

As of today, if a user clicks on a link with a poor Web of Trust reputation rating, they will see the above warning telling them… → Read More