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Wednesday November 3, 06:03 AM Eastern time
Company Press Release
Asahi Shimbun, Japan's Most Influential Newspaper Selects Commtouch to Provide Japanese Email
Largest Branded Email Service in Japan Provides Internet Messaging,
Calendaring and Online Tools for Asahi.com
Commtouch Software (Nasdaq:CTCH), a leading global provider of web-based email and messaging solutions, today announced its partnership with Japan's most respected and widely read newspaper, Asahi Shimbun. Commtouch was selected by Asahi Shimbun as the exclusive provider of web-based email for the newspaper's Internet news and destination site, asahi.com (www.asahi.com).
Asahi.com is now using the new Commtouch Custom Mail(TM) service which includes the most comprehensive, integrated email calendaring and address book in the market today.
Commtouch first began providing Japanese-language email in 1996, years before most other Internet companies were even formed. The International leader in outsourced email has more experience than any other web-based email provider in delivering messaging solutions for the Japanese market. Today Commtouch serves 1.2 million end users in Japan who subscribe to its web-based email services.
Tetsuzo Hori, Asahi Shimbun's Director of Electronic Media & Broadcasting said, "We chose the Commtouch Custom Mail service because it provides an advanced technology and a very convenient solution for our end-users. We are very pleased to have a good partnership with Commtouch and we highly appreciate its team and their efforts."
The Asahi Shimbun is read by more than 12 million subscribers every day, more than any other daily newspaper in Japan. It is considered the "paper of choice" amongst Japan's political, commercial and social elite. Asahi.com, the online arm of Asahi Shimbun, is one of Japan's leading destination Internet sites, attracting more than 2 million page views on an average day.
"We are very pleased and honored that Asahi Shimbun, the leading and most influential daily newspaper in Japan, has chosen our advanced, free web-based email service for its cyber news site", said Isabel Maxwell, President of Commtouch. "Commtouch has been actively developing email and messaging technology for the Japanese market for many years. This partnership with Asahi Shimbun is a wonderful confirmation of our efforts to support Japanese speakers with the latest Internet communication and productivity tools."
About Asahi Shimbun
Asahi Shimbun, founded in 1879, has long been considered Japan's most influential and international daily newspaper, published in Tokyo with regional headquarters. The newspaper has a daily circulation of 8.3 million for its morning edition and 4.2 million for its evening edition. An international satellite edition is printed daily in London, Heerlen (the Netherlands), New York, Los Angels, Singapore and Hong Kong.
Launched in August 1995, the Internet information service of Asahi Shimbun, "asahi.com" (http://www.asahi.com/), has grown to be one of Japan's most popular cyberspace sites, scoring on average, over 2 million page views a day.
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.
Commtouch offers the most scalable and innovative email messaging solution in Japanese. Commtouch Custom Mail includes calendar, address book and to-do list capabilities, operates with imported address books and offers advanced HTML composition features enabling users to choose font, size, color and backgrounds in Japanese.
The Company partners with internationally recognized consumer-driven organizations, including Ericsson, Excite International, First USA, Go2Net, McGraw Hill's BusinessWeek Magazine, Discovery Channel Online, Microsoft, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, ZDNet, Talk City, Netopia, Hachette Multimedia, the McClatchy Group's Nando.net, The Headbone Zone, News Corp. and People's Daily joint venture ChinaByte and the Hollinger Group's Jerusalem Post.
Founded in 1991, Commtouch has offices in Silicon Valley, London, New York City and Tel Aviv. Additional information in English may be obtained by visiting www.Commtouch.com additional information in Japanese may be obtained by visiting www.japan.Commtouch.com.
Note to Editors: Commtouch is a registered trademark of Commtouch Software Ltd. Terms and product names in this document may be trademarks of others.
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Contact:
Commtouch Software
Chris McCarthy, 408/839-5665 or 408/845-9903
cmc@commtouch.com
Debbie Kay, 972 9 796 5471 or 972 5 331 1916
debbie@commtouch.com
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