Critical Path is a provider of messaging services, working in partnerships with mobile operators, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and enterprises. It was acquired on December 4, 2013, by
Openwave Messaging and is now headed by Openwave Messaging President and CEO, Joe Campbell.
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Synchronoss Technologies agreed to acquire Openwave Messaging.
History
Critical Path, Inc. was founded in 1997 by
David C. Hayden and
Wayne de Geere III as a provider of outsourced email service to ISPs. In 1998 they hired a new CEO,
Doug Hickey
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Education
Hickey earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1977 from Siena College.
Career
From 1989 ...
and acquired
Usenet
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provider
Supernews. The company went public on March 29, 1999. The
IPO
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was covered favorably by the trade press at the time. In early 2001, nearly two years after their IPO, a series of lawsuits against Critical Path were filed over hiring practices, accounting irregularities, and securities fraud, culminating in a management shakeup and SEC action against the company's President, David Thatcher, and other executives. Thatcher and two others pleaded guilty and were sentenced to jail terms from three months to one year. In 2005 their stock was delisted by Nasdaq.
In 2007 the company went private
and in 2008 sold Supernews to
Giganews.
In October 2010, Critical Path and
Mirapoint, a secure enterprise messaging company, announced their decision to
merge
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.
See also
*
Internet messaging platform
*
List of antivirus software
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* Integration of
anti-spam techniques
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No technique is a complete solution to the spam problem, and each has trade-offs between incorrectly rejecting legitimate email (false positives) as opposed to ...
into MTAs
References
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Companies established in 1997