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Critical Path handles the mail at about five million e-mailboxes -- keeping about 180 customers (Internet service providers, web hosting companies, and corporations) from going postal. By hosting clients' e-mail, Critical Path can handle all the technical aspects of e-mail, reducing the headaches and cost of maintaining an in-house support staff. Customers, which include @Work, E*Trade, Network Solutions, Surfree, and TABNet, maintain their own brand names on their accounts. Backed by financing from several venture capital firms and investment banks, Critical Path is expanding into Africa, Asia, and Europe. cp.net
MessageMedia (Nasdaq:MAIL - news) is the leading provider of email-based customer relationship management and direct marketing services. The company offers a comprehensive suite of outsource messaging services for information delivery, permission-based direct marketing and ongoing customer communications using industry standard Internet protocols. MessageMedia's customer portfolio includes more than 60 customers from the financial services, publishing, direct marketing, retailing and electronic commerce industries. Clients include E-TRADE, USA Today, GeoCities, Intuit, CMP Media, Barclays Bank and Bertelsmann. MessageMedia is a member of the SOFTBANK family of companies. biz.yahoo.com MAIL trading 7s CPTH 58 |