150 Million People Have Decided That Standard Web Browsers Aren't Safe Enough

When FORBES last spoke to AnchorFree in August 2012, CEO David Gorodyansky put forth a modest goal for his 7 year-old company: "We want to be the way the whole world browses the Web," he boasted. In the last year, the company's trajectory has matched its lofty ambitions. A year ago 70 million people used AnchorFree's HotSpot Shield, a sort of browser overlay (a virtual private network, or VPN, for the tech-inclined) that protects web surfers from malware, viruses and hackers. Since then, after N...