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The result was keep. Per the uncontested evidence of notability. The PROMO claim appears to be thinly grounded. Jo-Jo Eumerus ( talk, contributions) 06:49, 8 November 2016 (UTC) reply

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not notable firm; all of the notices and minor awards are just routine for any business of this sort. A concentration of really minor awards and promotional articles is characteristic of an attempt to write a promotional article about a minor company. Some of the articles like this are done by paid editors; some by good-faith editors copying what the paid editors do, because they think it's what we want here. It's time to put an end to it, and remove the bad examples. Only then will we be able to teach the true volunteers how to do it in a proper encyclopedia manner. We can permit promotionalism and decline into a web directory, or we can remove it--all of it--and become a reasonably reliable encyclopedia DGG ( talk ) 06:19, 15 October 2016 (UTC) reply

Be aware that... commenting on other users rather than the article is...considered disruptive.

Reference  Unscintillating ( talk) 20:47, 29 October 2016 (UTC) reply

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Companies-related deletion discussions. North America ¹⁰⁰⁰ 12:08, 15 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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• delete per nom also, the attempts at inheriting notability. Basic WP:BEFORE shows me press releases, press release reprints, passing mentions and the phrase "high-tech bridge" - David Gerard ( talk) 14:01, 15 October 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete per WP:NOTPROMO and WP:IAR. A small firm using Wikipedia for promotion. Other than some sparse coverage in non-RS or tech blogs, I don't see anything. I also agree with the nom's statement that it is important to remove these articles (particularly in cases where the company is not unambiguously notable) and encourage a culture of writing better articles free of promotion. -- Lemongirl942 ( talk) 03:11, 26 October 2016 (UTC) reply

• Delete as corporate spam. K.e.coffman ( talk) 17:23, 29 October 2016 (UTC) reply
• Comment  Here are the sources from the article, with obvious press releases and primary sources removed.

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• "Company Overview of High-Tech Bridge SA". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
• "High-Tech Bridge CrunchBase profile". CrunchBase.
• "InfoSec 2014: High-Tech Bridge Democratises Access To Ethical Hacking". TechWeek Europe. Retrieved 1 May 2014.
• "Cloud-Based Vulnerability Management Solutions". Tom's IT Pro. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
• "How ethical hackers found a (small) vulnerability on my website". Graham Cluley. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
• "ImmuniWeb Review". PC Mag. Retrieved 25 February 2014.
• "Packet Storm - Files from High-Tech Bridge SA". PacketStorm.org. Retrieved 20 February 2016.
• "Security Update Program for VAIO® Personal Computers". esupport.sony.com. Sony. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
• "McAfee Security Bulletin - McAfee MVT & ePO-MVT update fixes an "Escalation of Privileges" vulnerability". kc.mcafee.com. McAfee. Retrieved 20 January 2015.
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Unscintillating ( talk) 22:15, 29 October 2016 (UTC) reply

• Keep  There are many sources in the article.  A little reading and clicking shows that this company outed Facebook, Twitter, and Google in 2013 for harvesting the URL from private messages.  See Google news for ["facebook" "Matthew campbell" "high-tech bridge"] for international attention to the suit against Facebook in late 2013.  This is one of the links there.  The suit was certified in May of this year.  Clearly notable as per WP:N, and a company that touches the lives of every editor at AfD.  Unscintillating ( talk) 22:56, 29 October 2016 (UTC) reply
• Comment. The only policy-based argument for deletion here is lack of notability. The 'me too' !votes from the usual suspects don't really add anything. Those editors who believe anything with (in their view) a sniff of promotion about it should be deleted really need to start a policy discussion rather than flooding AfD with these nominations. On the issue of notability, the company in my view looks borderline. There are articles such as these: [1], [2], [3]. Ideally I'd like to see more. Most of the sources cited in the article don't really contribute to establishing notability. -- Michig ( talk) 08:08, 30 October 2016 (UTC) reply

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