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Google to buy Email Security Company
Update : Google said on Monday it has agreed to acquire e-mail security company Postini for $625 million expanding its package of online applications to compete with Microsoft's Office software.
Postini supplies security and encryption services, protecting instant messaging, e-mail and other communications to more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users worldwide. Google said the deal could enable it provide organizations with more hosted services similar to its Google Apps package, which includes its e-mail service Gmail, Calendar, and Talk, its messaging service.
Google has been expanding its range of services from Web search and advertising to include popular software applications for businesses, such as word processing, putting it in direct competition with Microsoft's Office package of applications.
Google said its Google Apps has been adopted by more than 100,000 businesses to date.
"With this transaction, we're reinforcing our commitment to delivering compelling hosted applications to businesses of all sizes," said Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt in a statement.
Google said Postini will become a wholly owned subsidiary. The deal is expected to close by the end of the third quarter.
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Is Endeca really the next Google?
By Candace Lombardi
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
Published: June 28, 2007, 4:45 PM PDT
BOSTON--Some big names in search met Thursday at the Red Herring East conference and allowed their brains to be picked by venture capitalists eager to find the next good idea.
A panel consisting of Ask.com, Answers.com, Truveo/AOL and Microsoft search gurus deflected a slew of questions.
Who do you think are the next big search companies to watch? Who's going to go public? How are we going to monetize video search? Is it better to be a video search engine, or allow people to watch the video on your site once they find it?
Similar to what industry experts said of mobile video earlier in the week, it's not the technology holding things up. It's figuring out how to monetize all these new things, said the panelists.
The panelists said they were impressed with search engines like ZoomInfo.com, the job candidate search engine, and Mahalo, the search engine started by publishing entrepreneur Jason Calacanis that uses human-created results for the most popular searches.
While Mahalo is considered unique, none of the panelists sees it, or any other significant breakthrough on the horizon, as changing the definition of search.
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