July 11: Good news for Google users and really a bad news for Spammers who spread Spam online as the search engine giant and technological leader Google is shaking hands with leading security specialist Postini in the sum of $625 million for proving online security and front line war against Spamming.
By purchasing Postini, Google is going to compete to it’s one of the biggest contestant, Microsoft Corporation Ltd. as now online business will be more secure due to Postini.
“We're going to compete in your core business. It's not just the online advertising world, we're going to compete in the applications world as well.”, Said Shar VanBoskirk, a analyst for Forrester Research. “Google is attempting to expand its online role. This is a great competitive thing to do against Microsoft as we continue to watch the sparring match.”, added VanBoskirk.
There are huge numbers of small businessmen work online but very few big businesspersons are the clients of Google in online business because of security reason. But after collaborating with Postini Google Apps, a Google suite will be used greatly. Google Apps has already included spreadsheets, word processing tools, calendars and Gmail messaging in Google suite.
Postini is a California based email security specialist having only 300 employees and 35,000 business clients work as a leading front line warrior against online Spam. It is an expert in filtering unwanted email. It provides the service of monitoring, encrypting and archiving messages and ensuring compliance for clients such as stockbrokers with regulatory authorities.
“This really does reaffirm our commitment to deliver hosted applications to businesses that means small businesses as well as large businesses.”, said Dave Girouard, the general manager of Google Enterprises.
Postini filters more than a billion messages a day, sent to 10 million end users. “We are proud of what we have done to achieve our vision on behalf of our customers, and combining Google and Postini is a powerful next step in this creative journey," said Scott Petry a former Apple executive and founder of Postini.
Google’s shares roses by $5.45 to $544.85 dollar in the early trading on Nasdaq while its competitor’s shares felled ranging 1 to 2 percent.
This is the third biggest deal announced by Google after it snapped up DoubleClick for $3.1bn in April and its $1.65bn takeover of YouTube.
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