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Critical Path, Inc.

 
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Critical Path, Inc.
1840 Gateway Dr., Ste. 200
San Mateo, CA 94404
CA Tel. 415-541-2500
Toll Free 877-441-7284

Type: Private
On the web: http://www.criticalpath.net
Employees: 203
Employee growth: (17.5%)

Critical Path provides messaging applications that enable wireless companies and ISPs to offer mobile e-mail, anti-spam protection, and text messaging. Critical Path's identity management applications provide assistance to call centers in the form of password management and directory integration. In addition to telecom carriers and ISPs, the company sells to corporate and government clients. In late 2007 Critical Path announced plans to take the company private. The company has divested itself of certain assets and operations in recent years, including selling its hosted messaging operations to Tucows in 2006 and its Supernews usenet hosting business to GigaNews in 2008.

Key numbers for fiscal year ending December, 2007:
Sales: $44.0M
One year growth: (5.2%)
Net income: ($10.4)M

Officers:
Chairman: Mark J. Ferrer
CEO and Director: Mark E. Palomba
VP Finance: Tim Noel

Competitors:
Lotus Development
Microsoft
Sun Microsystems

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Critical Path, Inc.
Type Privately Held Company
Founded 1997
Headquarters Dublin, Ireland
Key people Mark Palomba, CEO and Chairman
Tim Noel, CFO
Donald Dew, CTO
Barry Twohig, EVP of Engineering
Industry Software
Products Mobile Software
Messaging Software
Anti-Abuse Software
Identity Management Software
Revenue $66.963 million USD (2005)
Employees 331
Website www.criticalpath.net

Critical Path is a provider of messaging services, working in partnerships with mobile operators, telecommunications companies, ISPs, and enterprises.

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History

Critical Path, Inc., founded in 1997, provides messaging solutions for mobile, broadband and fixed-line service providers. With offices around the globe, Critical Path's solutions have been deployed by more than 200 service providers, including Vodafone, Telecom Italia, O2, Telefónica Móviles, Tiscali, SFR, Indosat, Wind and ONO.

Products and Solutions

Critical Path's Memova product line provides consumer messaging solutions for mobile operators, broadband and fixed-line service providers. These solutions include:

Memova Mobile – consumer mobile email and multimedia content solutions for mobile operators. Memova Mobile pushes email and personalized news, blogs, music, sports and other popular consumer content to everyday mobile phones. Leveraging existing MMS infrastructure, Memova Mobile enables operators to get to market quickly with easy-to-use mobile data services designed exclusively for the consumer mass market.

Memova Messaging – a platform for service providers that delivers email and a broad range of value-added messaging services, including Universal Contacts, Digital Life, Media Mail, etc.

Memova Anti-Abuse – a "turnkey" anti-spam, anti-virus solution for service providers. Memova Anti-Abuse stops spam, viruses, mailbombs, denial-of-service, directory harvest and phishing attacks at the gateway. The solution includes two lines of defense flexible options and customized controls, ultimately providing a basic level of anti-abuse protection for all subscribers, while simultaneously offering extra protection as valueed-add services for opt-in subscribers.

Critical Path's portfolio also includes identity management solutions designed for deployment by enterprise corporations, governments and telecommunications operators.

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