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BlackSpider acquired... Again
Less than nine months after SurfControl bought BlackSpider, it seems that Websense is buying SurfControl.
Wow. Consolidation still rampant in the anti-spam market, eh?
BlackSpider is an email- and Web-filtering service. Variously described as "managed", "hosted", "on demand", or "in the cloud", the service competes with the bigger fish such as MessageLabs, Postini, and Microsoft -- the service it acquired with FrontBridge.
In related news, BlackSpider revenues are now about $11M (at today's excruciating 2:1 exchange rate to the British pound). 40% growth ain't bad.
My chums at BlackSpider must be rubbing their hands with glee. James, Jeff, John, Jonathan, Kevin, et al -- the beers are on you.
PS: calling SurfControl and Websense's PR/AR teams: how come I had to read about this in London's Sunday Times first? (Bizarrely, in an article about Peter Gabriel's new ad-supported, free music download service, called We7.)
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