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Google to Acquire Postini

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the must-be-a-monday dept.

Dynamoo writes "Google has announced that it is to acquire Postini, company best known for its corporate spam filtering and security service, but also active in Instant Messaging and compliance area. The deal is to purchase Postini for $625m in cash. The acquisition is slated to enhance Google's application portfolio, and Google will also acquire several very large Blue Chip customers that have previously eluded it."

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  1. Coming soon: Google Airlines by LibertineR · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey! It could happen!

    No lines, no waiting, free food and drinks, but the windows are replaced with screens showing advertisements 100% of the time.

    1. Re:Coming soon: Google Airlines by MalHavoc · · Score: 4, Funny

      And when you buy your ticket, you can click "I'm feeling lucky" and end up in the middle of nowhere. Awesome!

  2. Hmm... by js290 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The institution I work has been using Postini for almost a year now. It works pretty well. But, I've also used DSPAM and Spamassassin, and Postini is definitely not $625M better than either of those two.

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  3. Google buys by symes · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Googling "google buys" provides a pretty rich and varied list of Google's acquisitions: YouTube, Grand Central, Feedburner, Measure Map... and on and on and on. There's even rumours in some parts that a tie up between Google and Apple might be on the cards. Sorry, but it's getting to the point where "Google buys" stories just aren't informative anymore.

  4. Good News by Rydian · · Score: 3, Interesting

    We've been using Postini for the past few years, and have had great results with it. I just hope the Google interface design team does some work with Postini. Not that the Postini interface is horrible, but it could use more of the polish that Google brings to their apps.

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  5. Damn Microsoft by MyLongNickName · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Always buying companies instead of innovating.

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