AOL Buys Anti-Spam Company Mailblocks (washingtonpost.com)

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AOL buys Mailblocks to fight spam

AOL buys Mailblocks to fight spam 08/05/2004 05:36 AM
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AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort

AOL buys Mailblocks in spam-fighting
effort 08/04/2004 12:59 PM
America Online Inc. (AOL) has snapped up Web-based e-mail company Mailblocks Inc. in an effort to bolster its own e-mail services with greater antispam protection, mail management, and interface improvements, it said Wednesday.

America Online to buy anti-spam firm
Mailblocks

America Online to buy anti-spam firm
Mailblocks 08/04/2004 01:34 PM
Boston Globe Aug 4 2004 5:27PM GMT

The Anti-Spam Company Conflict

The Anti-Spam Company Conflict 11/05/2003 01:14 PM
You always have to wonder about businesses that are based on the premise that, if they're really successfully in what they do, you won't need them any more. That's certainly the case with anti-spam companies, who are apparently making pretty good money these days. While I'm sure that the vast majority of them do mean well, and plenty of their tools work very well in stamping out spam - you do have to wonder about their incentives to really stop spam. If spam were stopped, then these companies wouldn't have much of a reason for being in business any more. In other words, the more successful they are, the less successful they will be. That's a tough business proposition for any company.

Symantec buys anti-spam router maker
TurnTide

Symantec buys anti-spam router maker
TurnTide 07/13/2004 07:07 AM
Symantec Corp. has snatched up six-month-old router vendor TurnTide Inc. for an undisclosed sum.

MSFT buys spam company, sues the
competition, silences political
activists

MSFT buys spam company, sues the
competition, silences political
activists 07/30/2004 12:12 PM
My cow-orker Annalee Newitz has posted a great editorial on the latest court battles over spam, pointing out the weird, anticompetitive and anti-speech aspects of the spam fight.

Microsoft is developing what it calls Bonded Sender, a program that would supposedly separate "legitimate" Internet marketers and bulk mailers from spammers. Working with a California company called IronPort, Microsoft will create a white list of Internet marketers who have paid a fee and demonstrated that they have no record of spamming. Companies participating in the Bonded Sender program will be allowed to send their email ads to HotMail and MSN users.

Given Microsoft's investment in the Bonded Sender program, it seems they may soon be in the business of serving as middlemen between emailer marketers and their webmail users. In other words, it sounds like the software megacorp is about to start competing with Richter. Of course, Microsoft could always call off its suit if Richter claims to have been rehabilitated -- and he pays his Bonded Sender fees!

In the spam wars, sometimes it's hard to tell the spammers from the antispammers.

The situation gets even more complicated when you consider the fact that Microsoft will do more than pick and choose winners in the junk email business. Bonded Sender will punish most the people who aren't even sending advertisements -- groups like Internet activists MoveOn.org, who send out millions of emails to alert their members to upcoming political events and issues. If these groups don't pay their Bonded Sender fees, HotMail simply won't deliver their email -- regardless of whether users have specifically opted in to receive it.

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Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com)

Symantec to buy anti-spam company
(SiliconValley.com) 05/20/2004 08:47 AM
SiliconValley.com - Symantec, seeking to broaden its software technology to battle the growing flood of junk e-mail, announced Wednesday that it is paying $370 million in cash for anti-spam company Brightmail.

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company

Search Engine Marketing Company Buys
Santa Fe, New Mexico Web Development
Company 03/30/2005 04:01 AM
Trafficdeveloper LLC, a Santa Fe, NM based search marketing company, is pleased to announce they have recently purchased Panorama Point Corporation, a well known Santa Fe, New Mexico based Web Development firm. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools

Secure Resolutions Upgrades Their
Anti-Virus Engine to Include
Anti-Spyware, Anti-Adware, Anti-Dialers,
Anti-Hoaxes, Anti-Jokes, and
Anti-Hacking Tools 06/05/2005 11:14 PM
Secure Resolutions desktop security (Resolution Antivirus™) automatically detects and eliminates all types of viruses, worms, Trojans Horses, dialers, hoaxes, jokes, and hacking tools within a managed desktop security solution. [PRWEB Jun 2, 2005]

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam

Olive Powers Hosting Services with
Anti-virus & Anti-spam 09/04/2004 03:04 AM
Olive Web Hosting, a full-service division of Olive e-Business, offers a state-of-the-art anti-virus cover, an anti-spam gateway, plus a suite of other features one needs most for robust, secure and hassle-free hosting. [PRWEB Sep 4, 2004]

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam

Anti-Spam Technical Alliance Publishes
Industry Recommendations to Help Stop
Spam 06/22/2004 09:17 AM
The Anti-Spam Technical Alliance (ASTA), whose participants include Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., EarthLink and America Online Inc., today unveiled the result of more than a year of close collaboration by presenting a host of detailed best practices and technical recommendations for the entire industry in an effort to fight the scourge of spam.

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises

Symantec Brightmail Anti-Spam v6.0
delivers next-generation spam-fighting
power, control to enterprises 07/01/2004 10:20 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Jul 2 2004 2:42AM GMT

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus

Anti-spam activists targets of
spam-spawning virus 12/06/2003 09:45 AM
Canadian Press Dec 6 2003 9:11AM ET

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious

Anti-Spam Legislation Makes Spam More
Malicious 04/29/2004 01:28 PM
Aren't unintended consequences wonderful? Now that anti-spam legislation is becoming popular, one result is that spammers aren't wasting time with just spamming mortgage offers and ways to buy Viagra. Instead, now that they realize they're definitely on illegal ground, they're moving more towards malicious attack spam, including phishing attacks and trojan horse attacks. In other words, if they're going to break the law with spam, they figure they might as well go all out.

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology

AT&T patents anti anti-spam technology 11/19/2003 03:54 AM
DoubleClick Nov 19 2003 3:21AM ET

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent

Analyzing AT&T's Anti-Anti-Spam
Patent 11/16/2003 02:34 AM
An anonymous reader writes "Dan Gillmor is reporting in his eJournal taken, in turn, from Gregory Aharonian: AT&T has apparently been awarded a patent for ...

IBM buys BI company

IBM buys BI company 07/14/2004 11:41 AM
IBM added another piece to its ongoing business intelligence initiative on Wednesday, acquiring Alphabox Corp., a small software company in Mountain View, Calif. that specializes in analytics software.

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit

Report from the spam/anti-spam summit 04/09/2004 04:05 PM
Danny O'Brien has written up one of the first summits between spammers and spam-fighters for the Guardian. It's a great piece.

Surprisingly, no such shootings occur. It's oddly intimate, watching the spammers and the anti-spammers mill around each other like this. It feels like a temporary ceasefire in a vicious war that to most of us seems to be a stalemate...

Over the past year, though, a series of meetings arranged by a trusted figure in the American anti-spam community, Anne Mitchell, have been slowly bringing the two sides together. These mini-conferences, held under the banner of the Institute for Spam and Internet Public Policy, have mostly been between the highest-ranking ISPs - MSN, AOL - and commercial email marketers of the most squeaky clean kind. Initially in secret, these days the meetings are more public.

Link (via Oblomovka)

Godrej buys US BPO company

Godrej buys US BPO company 04/04/2005 04:33 AM
ZDNet India Apr 4 2005 8:13AM GMT

Yahoo buys travel company

Yahoo buys travel company 08/06/2004 06:41 PM
The Web portal acquires FareChase, a small online travel company, to broaden its search tools.

Computershare buys trust company

Computershare buys trust company 04/13/2005 01:43 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 13 2005 5:58AM GMT

Google Buys Web Analytics Company

Google Buys Web Analytics Company 03/29/2005 11:36 AM
Google announced late Monday it will acquire Urchin Software, a developer of analytic solutions for Web sites. Urchin produces tools to track the performance of marketing, examine the user experience and optimize content. Google intends to offer the tools to Web site owners and marketers.

Keynote Buys Web Research Company

Keynote Buys Web Research Company 09/10/2004 10:32 PM
The Web performance-monitoring vendor plans to pay $20 million for Vividence to bolster its Web-based customer research offerings.

RackSaver buys software company, changes
name

RackSaver buys software company, changes
name 04/12/2004 07:28 PM
SAN FRANCISCO - RackSaver Inc., which sells servers and software used to build high performance computing clusters, has acquired systems management software vendor MPI Software Technology Inc., it announced Monday. RackSaver has also changed its name to Verari Systems Inc., effective immediately.

Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why ?

Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why ? 02/25/2003 10:14 AM
Google's recent acquisition of weblog company Pyra Labs provoked widespread commentary, despite both companies remaining essentially mum on the rationale ...

Colorado Company Buys Elvis Cup (AP)

Colorado Company Buys Elvis Cup (AP) 01/05/2005 09:03 AM
AP - Nutballz, a cookie company founded by a snowboarder, says it has won an eBay auction to borrow a plastic foam cup its owner says was used by Elvis Presley during a 1977 concert.

Symbol Buys RFID Systems Company

Symbol Buys RFID Systems Company 07/27/2004 08:10 PM
In a $238 million deal, it buys Matrics, which designs and manufactures RFID systems compliant with the electronic product code.

Ask Jeeves Buys Desktop Search Company

Ask Jeeves Buys Desktop Search Company 06/09/2004 02:11 PM
The search company says the acquisition of startup Tukaroo will help it develop an application for searching desktop files as well as the Web.

US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33
Million

US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33
Million 12/30/2004 08:10 PM
Slashdot Dec 30 2004 10:29PM GMT

South Korean Company Buys Lycos

South Korean Company Buys Lycos 08/03/2004 05:26 AM
Daum Communications, a South Korean website firm, acquires Wired News' parent company Lycos from Spain's Terra. The sales price is less than 1 percent of what Terra paid for Lycos in 2000.

US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33
Million

US Company Buys Commodore Brand For $33
Million 12/30/2004 04:24 PM

Offshore Systems buys mapping company

Offshore Systems buys mapping company 04/13/2005 01:42 AM
globetechnology.com Apr 13 2005 5:58AM GMT

NY AG Buys Google Ads On Keywords Of
Company He's Investigating

NY AG Buys Google Ads On Keywords Of
Company He's Investigating 04/06/2005 06:28 PM
While most US courts have determined that there's no trademark infringement in buying a search engine advertisement based on a trademarked keyword, there are still some cases going forward. So, it's a bit surprising (though, amusing) to find out that New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer was caught buying trademarked keywords promoting his campaign for governor. The keywords in question were for AIG, the big insurance conglomerate that Spitzer has been investigating for fraud. From a publicity standpoint, perhaps it makes sense. People searching on AIG may associate Spitzer's name with the company, but this is a bit trickier than someone just trying to get some publicity off of a popular keyword. Spitzer now claims it was a mistake, and the ads have been removed. Of course, what's to stop someone else from buying the same ads, and linking them to Spitzer's campaign site? In fact, at the time of this posting, it looks like some random advertiser has picked up on this story and is advertising some random anti-Google site, claiming that Eliot Spitzer and Google "overstep their boundaries." Once again, people seem to be trying to make a point through popular keywords.

Google buys e-mail software company

Google buys e-mail software company 06/04/2004 08:15 PM

McCaw Buys Company with Spectrum Assets

McCaw Buys Company with Spectrum Assets 04/28/2004 03:53 PM
Craig McCaw has reportedly bought a Texas company, Clearwire, that has ITFS spectrum assets: The ITFS band is near the MMDS spectrum but was set aside primarily for educational institutions. During the last period of interest in MMDS, during the mid-1990s, some companies, including Clearwire apparently, negotiated with the educational institutions to use or buy the spectrum. The spectrum wasn't widely used by the educational organizations that controlled the spectrum. McCaw has long been interested in fixed wireless broadband. He founded XO Communications, which owns LMDS frequencies, in the mid-1990s. XO recently joined the WiMax Forum. ALso, Nextel owns a bunch of MMDS spectrum that it bought from Worldcom. McCaw has assembled a who's who list of execs to run the new company, being called Flux. Many of them are McCaw Cellular veterans and have held posts in other McCaw companies. Notable are Nicholas Kauser who was the CTO for AT&T Wireless and currently sits on the board of numerous Seattle companies; Rob Mechaley, who was one of the founders of RadioFrame and before that Wildfire; and Gerard Salemme, who has been involved with several McCaw companies including satellite company ICO. McCaw is notoriously mum about new ventures so it wouldn't be surprising if we don't learn details about this one for a while. But with real WiMax products becoming available in the near future, it would certainly be fair to suppose that the company may have ambitions of rolling out a fixed broadband offering using WiMax....

Sun buys server company, rehires
cofounder

Sun buys server company, rehires
cofounder 02/11/2004 12:11 PM
Sun Microsystems Inc. has agreed to acquire Kealia Inc., a privately held server design company based in California, and in the process is rehiring one of Sun's cofounders to help design the company's high-volume servers, Sun announced Tuesday.

Kazakh Company Buys Cellular Provider
(AP)

Kazakh Company Buys Cellular Provider
(AP) 04/13/2005 11:23 AM
AP - A Kazakhstan-based company said Wednesday it bought Kyrgyzstan's biggest cellular communication provider, which is under investigation for possible links to the ousted Kyrgyz president's family.

Google Buys Photo Management Company

Google Buys Photo Management Company 07/13/2004 10:09 AM
Forbes Jul 13 2004 1:49PM GMT

CA Buys Anti-Spyware Vendor

CA Buys Anti-Spyware Vendor 08/16/2004 04:18 PM
With its acquistion of PestPatrol, one of the original vendors in the space, Computer Associates aims to provide an enterprise-class solution to the threats of spyware.
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