MessageLabs
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| Acquired by Symantec Corporation in 2008 | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | 1999 |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | Gloucester, England |
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| Products 📟 | Email, web and Instant Messaging security |
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| 🌐 Website | www |
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MessageLabs was a company, founded in 1999 by brothers Ben and Jos White and partners,[1] providing cloud based software as a service integrating messaging and web security services. MessageLabs provided a range of managed security services to protect, control, encrypt, and archive communications across Email, Web, and Instant Messaging.
On October 8, 2008, Symantec announced the acquisition of MessageLabs for a cash sum of £310 million plus US$154 million. The deal closed on November 14, 2008.[2]
The White brothers, along with MessageLabs' financial director Stephen Chandler, invested a share of their proceeds in establishing Notion Capital.
History
In 2005, Messagelabs acquired Omnipod.[3]
In 2006, MessageLabs ended a strategic partnership with ScanSafe, a competing security company, with the release of an in-house web security product titled Web Security Service Version 2. A resultant court judgment brought about by ScanSafe required MessageLabs to notify all prospective clients that the Version 2 service is not based on ScanSafe technology.[4]
In 2007, the company split from Star Technology Services, the original founder of MessageLabs.[5]
References
- ↑ Doidge, Fleur (2008-10-28). "MessageLabs brothers get £100m Notion". CRN. Retrieved 23 November 2013. (subscription required)
- ↑ "Symantec Completes Acquisition of MessageLabs". Symantec.
- ↑ "MessageLabs to buy OmniPod for IM security". CNET.
- ↑ "ScanSafe forces MessageLabs to clarify sales pitches". Out-Law.
- ↑ "MBO splits Star and MessageLabs". The Register.
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