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J2 Global Inc. Acquires Another Six Companies in Q2

L.A. Business Journal

The acquired firms include email marketing companies SMTP and Publicaster, digital media company GameTrailers, as well as backup storage companies Electronic Vaulting Services, Safebackup, and 24sevenbackup. The Hollywood-based internet services company acquired six small companies for an undisclosed amount in the second quarter.

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j2 Global Buys Six Companies In Q2

socalTECH

j2 Global said it has acquired SMTP , a provider of email marketing services; GameTrailers , a digital media publisher; Publicaster , an email marketing company; Electronic Vaulting Services , a backup services provider; Safebackup , another backup provider, and Ireland-based , also in the backup area.

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Sendio Enhances Email Appliance

socalTECH

The appliance uses a combination of SMTP tests and other methods to identify e-mail servers, along with sender address verification to very senders of emails to a user. box--adds new features based on low-level SMTP testing to validate e-mail servers, a technology the firm has billed as "Silverlisting."

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How Sendgrid Makes Sure Those App Emails Go Through, With Jim Franklin

socalTECH

It can be deceptively easy to set up your own, SMTP server, to send email on behalf of that app. However, every web application needs and email component. It starts when you register for a web application, the app send you a confirmation email, which is transactional email. The problem is when the things go wrong.

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Choosing Internet Platforms

SoCal CTO

He sees this as similar to what happened with SMTP, POP, HTTP, etc. NEA No one owns it Everyone can use it Anyone can improve it Introduces (adds to Levels above) idea of Level 4 Platform In his mind, the key ingredient is that the there needs to be multiple platform service providers. Only guarantee for longevity is if you have options.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

We have a theme we call Protocol, which are technology protocols and markets built around technology protocols like SMTP for email and RSS. For example we have a theme we call human computer interaction, a theme we call Glue – which is a software layer that glues things together on the internet. Human Computer Interaction. Distribution.

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The Web is Against the Ropes, But it’s Not Dead

Both Sides of the Table

The start of the argument is that you need to separate using the Internet into “infrastructure & cloud services&# (basically the protocols of the Internet such as HTTP, TCP/IP, SMTP, etc. + web storage, elastic computing) from how you consume the Internet as a user (the front end – HTML).

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