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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <p>Postini was a <a href="/facts/Startup_company/9lsjFELt">startup company</a> founded in 1999 by Shinya Akamine, Gordon Irlam, Brian Maggi, and Scott Petry in <a href="/facts/Redwood_City%2c_California/tgxq3E29">Redwood City, California</a>, United States.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:2" href="#fn:2"><sup>2</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> It was backed by <a href="/facts/August_Capital/WdmtoFB3">August Capital</a>, with second-round funding from August as well as <a href="/facts/Summit_Partners/cxA6p9g4">Summit Partners</a> Accelerator Fund and <a href="/facts/Sun_Microsystems/VJ9EzEFd">Sun Microsystems</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> By February 2005, it was operating ten U.S. <a href="/facts/Data_center/DS5wJY41">data centers</a>, processing 2.5 billion e-mail messages weekly, and providing anti-spam services for more than 4,200 companies and "6 million end users, including workers at <a href="/facts/Merrill_Lynch/bwWt2DSs">Merrill Lynch</a>, <a href="/facts/Circuit_City_(1949_company)/HsHgLo9c">Circuit City</a>, <a href="/facts/Rayovac/zBzmRfhM">Rayovac</a>, and <a href="/facts/Hormel_Foods/ac5q17SQ">Hormel Foods</a>, the company that makes <a href="/facts/Spam_(food)/KMXc67pN">Spam</a>, the canned meat product".<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> Later in 2005 it moved to nearby <a href="/facts/San_Carlos%2c_California/8IAgfA8D">San Carlos, California</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> </p><p>On July 9, 2007, Google announced that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Postini.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> Google paid $625 million in cash for the acquisition.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> </p><p>The former company's services are now marketed as "Google Postini Services." </p><p>In September 2011, Google announced it would discontinue a number of its products, including Google Web Security, which was acquired by Google as part of Postini.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> On August 21, 2012, Google announced it would be shutting down all of Postini's web services and folding the service's users into <a href="/facts/Google_Apps/emfwDelt">Google Apps</a>.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> After a multi-year migration effort, the last customers were migrated to Google Apps in the second half of 2015. </p> <h2 id="see-also">See also</h2> <ul><li><a href="/facts/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google/4wKWvHPN">List of mergers and acquisitions by Google</a></li> <li><a href="/facts/Exchange_Online_Protection/wXefsrGI">Exchange Online Protection</a>, competing product by Microsoft</li> <li><a href="/facts/IronPort/aDMUjukx">IronPort</a>, competing product by Cisco</li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Postini, Inc". OpenCorporates. December 6, 1999. Retrieved August 20, 2023. <a href="https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/3136462" target="_blank">https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_de/3136462</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Hesseldahl, Arik (February 14, 2005). "Death To Spam". Forbes. Retrieved January 16, 2010. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/2005/02/14/cx_ah_0214fastpostini.html" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/2005/02/14/cx_ah_0214fastpostini.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Blackwell, Gerry (November 20, 2000). "Hope on the E-mail Front". isp-planet.com. Archived from the original on September 28, 2009. Retrieved January 16, 2010. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090928002139/http://www.isp-planet.com/services/postini.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20090928002139/http://www.isp-planet.com/services/postini.html</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Blackwell, Gerry (November 20, 2001). "Postini Revisited". isp-planet.com. Archived from the original on April 15, 2010. Retrieved January 16, 2010. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100415061945/http://www.isp-planet.com/business/2001/postini_revisited.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20100415061945/http://www.isp-planet.com/business/2001/postini_revisited.html</a> <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Hesseldahl, Arik (February 14, 2005). "Death To Spam". Forbes. Retrieved January 16, 2010. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/2005/02/14/cx_ah_0214fastpostini.html" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/2005/02/14/cx_ah_0214fastpostini.html</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>McMillan, Robert (November 15, 2005). "Postini taps VeriSign for new CEO". InfoWorld. Retrieved January 16, 2010. <a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/postini-taps-verisign-new-ceo-203" target="_blank">http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/postini-taps-verisign-new-ceo-203</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Girouard, Dave (September 13, 2007). "We've officially acquired Postini". The Official Google Blog. Retrieved October 23, 2007. <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-officially-acquired-postini.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/09/weve-officially-acquired-postini.html</a> <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Google Inc. Form 10-Q 30 June 2007 interim financial statements SEC Accession No. 0001193125-07-175880 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Alan Eustace (September 2, 2011). "A fall spring-clean". Google. Retrieved September 2, 2011. <a href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html" target="_blank">http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/fall-spring-clean.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Juan Carlos Perez (August 21, 2012). "Google Postini Email services will be shutting down, new encryption service appears to be on the way". Retrieved August 28, 2012. <a href="http://9to5google.com/2012/08/21/google-postini-email-services-will-be-shutting-down-new-encryption-service-appears-to-be-on-the-way/" target="_blank">http://9to5google.com/2012/08/21/google-postini-email-services-will-be-shutting-down-new-encryption-service-appears-to-be-on-the-way/</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>