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IBM buys webmail biz of Hong Kong startup Outblaze

By thomascrampton ⋅ January 15, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Hong Kong’s home-grown “Internet conglomerate” Outblaze just sold its email business to IBM. Congrat Yat and the Outblaze team!

There are no details about the size of the transaction, but Outblaze’s blog now says an update will come next week.

Correction: As @peterschloss correctly points out, you could hardly term Outblaze a startup. It has been around for 11 years, longer than Google.

IBM bought the business in order to expand their software as service business offerings:

The Outblaze messaging service will be part of IBM Lotus’ Project “Bluehouse.” “Bluehouse” is IBM’s online social networking and collaboration service designed for business and currently in open beta (http://bluehouse.lotus.com). “Bluehouse” helps people work together more quickly and easily beyond the boundaries of their organizations. Within the service people can share files, chat, participate in online meetings and network over the Web.

With more than 10 years of experience, Outblaze was one of the first companies to offer a fully hosted multilingual e-mail service and now supports over 40 million users. Outblaze’s proven online Web-based messaging service offers unique capabilities for branding and administration. Today, Outblaze operates one of the largest online service platforms for the provision of private label e-mail, collaboration and social media services for other service providers, telecommunications operators, corporations, academia, media and publishing companies.

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  • george
    Some good news for Hong Kong!
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Thomas Crampton was a correspondent for the International Herald Tribune and The New York Times for more than a decade, reporting from five continents, writing a column on Asia and covering Asian politics, economics and culture. Currently based in Hong Kong, he writes here about China, the Internet and New Media seen from Asia, while also advising companies on digital communication strategies. For more information click here...