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""CommTouch Increases Global Partner Sites by 73% During Three Months
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 4, 1999--Increasing its established position in the email
outsourcing market, CommTouch Software, (Nasdaq: CTCH) a leading global provider of outsourced email for corporations and consumers, announced today it signed 71 new customers, including 20 international sites within the past quarter ended September 30th.
Among the newly signed CommTouch customers are online global ventures Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET), Knight Ridder New Media (www.realcities.com), Homestead, Sega, ShopNow.com (Nasdaq: SPNW) and WebSideStory in the U.S. Additional new customer sites include Australian-based Fairfax Publishing,
Ericsson, Ibazar's FranceMail.com, Grabmail.com, Malysia's consumer eCommerce site, Go2020.com and the largest online community in France, Multimania.com.
"The growth we experienced this quarter once again demonstrates our leading position in the outsourced
email market both for corporations and consumers around the world," said Gideon Mantel, CommTouch CEO. "CommTouch continues to extend its solid partner base and dominant international position as a primary leader in email services."
Mantel added, "CommTouch is at the center of the most important e-trends seen today: the explosive growth of email as a primary communication channel, the rapid adoption of outsourcing as a competitive necessity and the globalization of business strategies."
About CommTouch
Serving 6.6 million active Emailboxes around the world, CommTouch is a leading provider of outsourced email and messaging services for corporations and consumers worldwide. CommTouch email is designed for superior performance and rapid scalability, offering end user interfaces in sixteen of the world's major languages.
With more than eight years of delivering intuitive, award-winning email software, CommTouch provides its customers a truly comprehensive turn-key email service, together with options for premium communications services and direct marketing opportunities.
The Company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including About.com (Nasdaq: BOUT), Excite International (Nasdaq: ATHM), First USA (NYSE: ONE), Go2Net (Nasdaq: GNET), McGraw Hill's BusinessWeek Magazine (NYSE: MHP), Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NYSE: NTT), ZDNet (NYSE: ZDZ), Talk City (Nasdaq: TCTY), Netopia (Nasdaq: NTPA), Hachette Multimedia, the McClatchy Group's Nando.net (NYSE: MNI), The Headbone Zone, News Corp's (NYSE: NWS) People's Daily joint venture ChinaByte and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post.
Founded in 1991, CommTouch has offices in Silicon Valley, California, New York City, London and Ein Vered, Israel. Additional Company information may be obtained by visiting www.commtouch.com.
(c) 1999 CommTouch Software, Ltd. All rights reserved. CommTouch is a registered trademark of CommTouch Software Ltd. Terms and product names in this document may be trademarks of others.
Contact:
CommTouch Software, Inc.
Chris McCarthy, 408/845-9903
cmc@commtouch.com
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