Recent news of the acquisition of TenCube, a provider of mobile security software – WaveSecure, by McAfee, brings 2 levels of news to me.
First, TenCube is a company founded by a fellow student at the National University of Singapore. The founder was also an alumni of the NUS Overseas Colleges (NOC), a program which gave students opportunity to go to California (Silicon Valley), Philadelphia (Bio Valley), Shanghai, Bangalore (newer) or Beijing (newest) – one of these thriving cities to take up a 1-year internship. Students got the chance to intern and learn at start-up companies, in turn, inspiring the students to go on to be entrepreneurs themselves. This latest news, indeed, is great news and reward to the entire NOC community, a testament that the program has indeed nurtured the right talent.
Secondly, the acquisition points towards the certainty that mobile is becoming more important and companies are placing more emphasize on securing these mobile devices that usually hold a lot of personal and confidential company data.
Therefore, mobile is the way to go!
Read the article – McAfee, Inc. to Acquire tenCube; To Deliver Next Generation Mobility Platform
