Runbox
| Privately held company (AS) | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Industry | Email Service Provider |
| Founded 📆 | 2011 |
| Founder 👔 | |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Oslo, Norway |
Area served 🗺️ | |
Key people | Dag Asheim, Chairman of the Board; Geir Thomas Andersen, Managing Director |
| Services | Runbox Mail Manager |
| Members | |
Number of employees | |
| 🌐 Website | runbox.com |
| 📇 Address | |
| 📞 telephone | |
Coordinates: 59°56′43.92″N 10°46′40.96″E / 59.9455333°N 10.7780444°E
Runbox Solutions AS is a company that provides e-mail and web hosting services worldwide. Runbox Solutions was founded in March 2011 and is headquartered in Oslo, where the Runbox services were launched in 2000. Mainly employee-owned, Runbox Solutions AS works closely with the Norwegian systems management company Copyleft Solutions AS.
History[edit]
- 10 October 1999: Runbox AS founded
- 16 August 2000: the free e-mail service Runbox Mail Manager launched, pioneering online storage of e-mail with offering of 100 MB storage space and e-mail consolidation tools
- March 2001 Runbox Mail Manager reached 130,000 registered accounts, increasing by 1300 per day
- 7 October 2001: Runbox Mail Manager was converted from a free e-mail service to a subscription-based service, three percent of free users converted to paid service
- 1 July 2004: e-mail storage space increased to 1 GB[1]
- 21 January 2005: e-mail hosting services launched[2]
- 28 September 2005: e-mail storage space increased to 10 GB[3]
- 25 March 2011: Runbox Solutions AS founded by former employees and key people in Runbox AS[4]
- 1 June 2011: Runbox e-mail services acquired by Runbox Solutions AS from Runbox AS, now renamed to Internet Upside AS[5]
- 14 June 2011: e-mail servers moved to a facility provided by Digiplex and Copyleft Solutions, the company now managing the Runbox servers
- 2012 - 2016: Increased attention and growth following the surveillance and data privacy debate in the global media.[6]
- 2017 - 2018: Additional security and privacy measures and implementation of the EU's GDPR. [7]
- 21 November, 2018: Runbox 7, a webmail app with synchronized email indexing built with Angular 2+ and Xapian, launched in open beta.[8]
- 12 December, 2018: Runbox 7 Webmail App launched as open source software.[9]
Services[edit]
The core Runbox e-mail service consists of open source components and a web application developed by Runbox with funding from The Research Council of Norway.[10]
In addition to its webmail service, Runbox offers IMAP, POP, and SMTP support as well as FTP and CalDAV with a focus on security and privacy. Runbox emphasizes the environmental sustainability of its operations, which is anchored in its ethical foundation.[11]
Being located in Norway, Runbox attracted renewed attention in light of the surveillance debate of 2013[12] and subsequently experienced substantial growth.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Vil du ha epost med en gigabyte lagringsplass?(Norwegian), retrieved 2 February 2010
- ↑ Web Host Industry Review: Runbox Launches Email Hosting, retrieved 12 September 2009
- ↑ Runbox: News archive, retrieved 2 February 2010
- ↑ Nøkkelopplysninger fra Enhetsregisteret Brønnøysundregistrene
- ↑ Nøkkelopplysninger fra Enhetsregisteret Brønnøysundregistrene
- ↑ E.U. Leaders Seek Way to Protect Individuals’ Data
- ↑ GDPR and Updates to our Terms and Policies
- ↑ Runbox 7 Webmail entering open beta phase
- ↑ Runbox 7 is going open source
- ↑ Runbox 7 Project, retrieved 22 February 2019
- ↑ Runbox Company Values
- ↑ NSA-Überwachung: Nachfrage nach Mail-Verschlüsselung sprunghaft gewachsen SPIEGEL ONLINE, 2013
- ↑ E.U. Leaders Seek Way to Protect Individuals’ Data
External links[edit]
- Official website
- Runbox' entry in the Brønnøysund Register Centre, Norway's official company register
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