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Google Buys Postini

July 9, 2007

As GigaOM reported, Google announced the $625M acquisition of Postini this morning, which was not unforeseen. With Cisco’s $800M acquisition of Ironport (which was hardware-based), Symantec’s $300M acquisition of Brightmail (which channeled its services thru MessageLabs) and Microsoft’s acquisition of FrontBridge (which was service-based) there were only a view acquisition targets remaining in the email [...]

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FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities

March 20, 2002

—— Forwarded Message From: Wilson Zehr Date: Wed, 20 Mar 2002 17:43:40 -0800 To: ‘Ian Andrew Bell’ Subject: FW: Good Article….Post Bubble Silicon Valley Realities Silicon Valley Reboots The dot-com bust was bad for Wall Street, but it was the best thing to happen to this high-tech crucible By Steven Levy NEWSWEEK March 25 issue [...]

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