Mailblocks
Acquires EmailAccount.com [January 8, 2004]
LOS
ALTOS, CALIFORNIA, and CONSUMER ELECTRONICS SHOW, LAS
VEGAS—January 8, 2004—Mailblocks, Inc. today
announced it has acquired the assets of EmailAccount.com,
a provider of free and premium Web-based email accounts
to 50,000 users. While terms of the acquisition were
not disclosed, Mailblocks plans to migrate EmailAccount.com
customers to its services during the first quarter of
2004.
Mailblocks
provides a new class of email service that delivers
a powerful combination of features and capabilities
to help consumers manage, protect and consolidate their
email. The hallmark of Mailblocks' service is its patented
Challenge/Response 2.0 anti-spam technology, which completely
eliminates spam from consumers' inboxes while allowing
passage of legitimate email. The purchase also coincides
with Mailblocks' launch of a new free version of its
acclaimed Web-based email service and the addition of
a number of new features for both its free and premium
services. (See related press release:
Mailblocks Debuts New Free Web-based Email Service at
CES; Adds Innovative Features to Premium Services.)
“We are delighted to welcome EmailAccount.com
users to a new home and pleased to provide them access
to Mailblocks' superior spam-free consumer email platform,”
said Mailblocks' Vice President of Sales and Marketing
Susan Bratton. “Our goal is to make their migration
to Mailblocks as transparent as possible, without any
interruption of service and backed by network operations
and engineering.”
The purchase of EmailAccount.com marks
Mailblocks' second acquisition. In October, Mailblocks
acquired the customer base of Cleanster, Inc., another
anti-spam service.
Mailblocks' new free service features
storage comparable to EmailAccount.com, with 5MB of
storage. In addition, Mailblocks' free service includes
its highly effective and patented anti-spam Challenge/Response
2.0 technology and most of the management capabilities
of Mailblocks' premium accounts.
Mailblocks'
Premium Service provides EmailAccount.com's premium
customers with greater storage, an increased number
of Rules and Trackers and provides advanced email handling
capabilities at more affordable rates. Premium customers
also can manage up to ten existing email accounts through
the Mailblocks Inbox and access Mailblocks through popular
email programs like Microsoft Outlook Express and Eudora.
Its Basic Service provides 15MB of storage for the low
price of $9.95 per year. Additionally, its Premium Service
features 100MB of storage, aggressively priced at $24.95
per year. All services also offer attachment allowances
of 6MB, enabling users to send and store large files.
New subscribers can obtain the free or enhanced Mailblocks
services at
www.mailblocks.com .
Additionally, a free 30-day trial of the service is
available at http://freetrial.mailblocks.com.
About
Mailblocks
Mailblocks, Inc. is a new class of Web-based email service
for consumers. Founded in July 2002 by Phil Goldman,
a former Microsoft executive and a founder of WebTV,
Mailblocks started with a simple idea: improve the consumer
email experience--make it better, more manageable and—above
all else—free from the aggravation of spam. Using
state-of-the-art technology, an assemblage of talented,
passionate and experienced individuals and a customer
research driven development model, Mailblocks is dedicated
to helping people restore and fulfill the true potential
of email communication. To learn more about Mailblocks,
visit our Web site at
www.mailblocks.com
or
contact pr@mailblocks.com.
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For More Information:
Krause Taylor Associates for Mailblocks
Jennifer Edsell Henderson
(408) 918-9085
jennifer@krause-taylor.com |
