May 8, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- On-demand messaging and collaboration solution provider Apptix (apptix.com) announced on Tuesday it has acquired technology company WebMessenger (webmessenger.com). WebMessenger provides Apptix with market-ready mobile messaging and collaboration products and extensive engineering expertise in critical emerging mobile IM and voice over Internet protocol markets.
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Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, WebMessenger's customers include IBM, Genentech, Lehman Brothers, MetLife, Verizon and Sprint. WebMessenger will expand Apptix's existing portfolio of on-demand email, collaboration and voice solutions to include business-class mobile and desktop IM.
WebMessenger's IM solution provides mobile workers with real-time communicational abilities with colleagues, partners and customers, while providing critical business-class functionality, such as security and IM conversation archiving. The application also allows enables to communicate across public and private IM networks, including AOL, MSN, Yahoo, ICQ, GoogleTalk, Jabber, Skype, IBM Lotus Sametime, Jabber XCP, Microsoft Live Communications Server and Reuters Messaging.
"The acquisition of WebMessenger will bring the cost benefits and productivity enhancing features of Mobile IM and Presence Management to our 150,000 SMB users," says Amir Hudda, CEO of Apptix. "Furthermore, it provides Apptix with the necessary IP to deliver on our vision of on-demand unified communications for the SMB market."
