Flightman today announced that Canadian airline, WestJet Encore, signed a contract to install their Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) software across their entire fleet of Bombardier Q400 NextGen series aircraft.
WestJet Encore selected Flightman to provide the EFB software infrastructure to support their move towards a paperless cockpit. (read the full story here)

Londoners cannot have failed to see the adverts for Nutmeg peppering Tube carriages, and the new online discretionary manager’s profile received an unexpected boost from Barclays earlier this month when one of its analysts accidentally sent an email praising its website to the firm rather than to a colleague. (read the full story here)

Metaforic, the innovative software security company, today announced that Gartner has named Metaforic as one of its 2013 Cool Vendors in the “Security Infrastructure Protection” category. Metaforic offers software immunization technology that enables software to defend itself against attack, so that software creators can deploy their applications in a variety of imperfectly protected or even hostile environments, ranging from embedded infrastructure to mobile applications. (read the full story here)

Webinar to Feature Latest Insights and Trends in Mobile Security Risks
Metaforic, the innovative software security company, today announced a joint mobile security webinar, with a Forrester Research analyst, on March 21. The one-hour session will provide an overview of the latest mobile threats, and will discuss in detail the relative security merits of various mobile platforms (e.g., iOS, Android) and associated implementation approaches (e.g., HTML5, Objective-C, Java) (read all about it here).

Acunu Analytics brings ‘fast-to-build’ rich queries, rich data modeling and real-time results to the Cassandra NoSQL community.
Acunu, the pioneer in real-time big data analytics, today announced the availability of Acunu Analytics for Cassandra. For the first time, Cassandra users don’t need to be database experts to build business-value applications. Instead Cassandra users can easily undertake dynamic analysis of high-velocity data streams at scale and in real-time. (read the full story here)

Self-Defending Software Immune System Takes Top Honors in the Security Products and Solutions for Finance and Banking Category
SAN JOSE, Calif., Mar 01, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Metaforic, the innovative software security company, today announced that the company’s self-defending software immune system was named the Gold winner by Info Security Products Guide’s 2013 Global Excellence Awards in the “Security Products and Solutions for Finance and Banking” category. (read the full story here)

CertiVox releases SkyKey hosted encryption key management service By Adrian Bridgwater, February 20, 2013 (Dr Dobb’s Journal) Web 2.0 security company CertiVox has released SkyKey, a hosted encryption key management service. The product gives developers a tool for enterprise-level encryption key management that does not involve proxies and certificates, “cumbersome” PKI infrastructure, or manual scripting. (read the full story here)

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 20, 2013— Metaforic, the innovative software security company, today announced its flagship product line is now also available for mobile applications written in Objective-C, the most commonly used software language on Apple iOS platforms. With state-of-the-art protection against a variety of offline and runtime attacks, including unwanted method swizzling, Metaforic’s enhanced offering will make it easier for developers on this popular platform to automatically incorporate unparalleled security into their applications. Read the full story here

FanDuel Inc, (http://www.fanduel.com), the leading daily fantasy sports game operator, announced today that it has closed $11M in Series C financing from new investor Comcast Ventures, existing investors Piton Capital, Pentech Ventures, Bullpen Capital and serial investor Richard Koch. Read the Venturebeat coverage here.

Info Security Recognizes Industry’s Only Automated Self-Defending Security Software as Top Contender in 2013 Global Excellence Awards – read the full story here.