Tuesday October 12, 6:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
CommTouch to Provide Outsourced Messaging
Solutions for Multimania.com
SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 12, 1999--CommTouch Software, (Nasdaq:CTCH - news) a leading
global provider of outsourced email for corporations and consumers, announced today it was selected to outsource messaging solutions for France's premiere community site, Multimania.com (www.MultiMania.fr).
Among the fastest growing independent providers of web-based email, CommTouch will power the web-based email for MultiMania's 200,000 registered users who visit the site each day.
MultiMania's community site offers email, opt-in theme chat rooms, forums, mailing lists, web hosting, e-commerce and search facilities. MultiMania was established in the Silicon Valley in 1995 and very quickly became one of the leading companies in the French Internet industry. It is the only completely independent company whose product is among the top 5 French sites.
``We chose CommTouch Custom Mail because it offers a wide choice of extremely advanced and performing functions,
perfectly adapted to the needs of our end users,' said Olivier Heckman Co-Founder of MultiMania, Director of Content and Community. ``During our entire development phase we appreciated the attentive personal treatment of the CommTouch team and their quick response to our needs which in a highly dynamic market such as ours, is a determining element.'
``We are proud to be working with the top community site in France and will continue to deliver email solutions of the highest quality to many other first class Internet companies,' said Amir Lev, CommTouch General Manager. ``We are extremely pleased with this partnership and look forward to watching MultiMania grow and establish itself as one of leading Community
sites in Europe.'
About CommTouch
Serving 6.6 million active Email boxes 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 - news), Excite International (Nasdaq:ATHM - news), First USA (NYSE:ONE - news), Go2Net (Nasdaq:GNET - news), McGraw Hill's BusinessWeek Magazine (NYSE:MHP - news), Discovery Channel Online, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph (NYSE:NTT - news), ZDNet (NYSE:ZDZ - news), Talk City (Nasdaq:TCTY - news), Netopia (Nasdaq:NTPA - news),
Hachette Multimedia, the McClatchy Group's Nando.net (NYSE:MNI - news), The Headbone Zone, News Corp's
(NYSE:NWS - news) 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.
About MultiMania
MultiMania is the 1st French speaking community site. It offers end users the ability to express themselves on the Internet and to meet other end users who share the same interests through the following services: communication via free email, chat or discussion forums, create and host personal pages, easily explore the site with a thematic directory and search engine, discover news, events and purchase cultural, ``computer' and recreational products via e-commerce.
Founded in 1998, MultiMania became, in a few short months, one of the most important players in the French Internet. It is the third largest French site in terms of audience (according to independent studies by Net Value and Benchmark Group -- September 99). MultiMania attracts over 400,000 users every day and has over 200,000 members who have created over 2.3 million web pages.
Note to Editors: CommTouch is a registered trademark of CommTouch Software Ltd.
Terms and product names in this document may be trademarks of others.
Contact:
CommTouch USA
Chris McCarthy, 408/845-9903 or 408/839-5665
cmc@commtouch.com
or
CommTouch International
Debbie Kay, 972 9 8636806 or 972 5 331 1916
debbie@commtouch.com |
