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AnchorFree is a software company that provides a virtual private network (VPN) for secure web browsing.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.crunchbase.com/company/anchorfree )〕 The company is led by David Gorodyansky, who founded the firm in 2005 together with his friend Eugene Malobrodksy.〔 The company is headquartered in Mountain View, California.〔 ==Platforms and users== The company works with a “freemium” model, providing free software with advertisements, and a paid version without ads.〔 The software is available for desktops, smart phones and tablet computers using Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, Android and iOS operating systems.〔 The software has been downloaded 120 million times and has 20 million active monthly users in 190 countries.〔 Hotspot Shield has been used in countries where the Internet is censored because the software allows users to gain access to websites privately and thus remain uncensored.〔 AnchorFree has data centers in the United States, Japan, Germany and Switzerland, locations which are only partly subject to Internet censorship.〔 The firm reported an increase in its Egyptian user base from 100,000 users to one million during the Arab Spring. During this time, the program was used to access social media websites like Twitter to organize protests.〔〔 The firm's website is now blocked from some Middle Eastern countries, China and Thailand; the company set up an auto-reply email with a VPN software attachment to circumvent the censorship and provide clients with the application.〔 It was also used in Tunisia and Libya before the Arab Spring.〔 In 2012, after reaching 60 million downloads, the company announced it had raised $52 million of financing from Goldman Sachs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「AnchorFree」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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