Google Makes Major Step for New Instant Messenger

Google announced the acquisition of Postini, a messaging security company that is able to improve the Google Apps suite with new communication features. According to the two companies, the Mountain View giant pays no less than $625 million for the "company that offers hosted security and compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications. Postini already serves more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users and was one of our first Google Enterprise Partners for Google Apps."

The acquisition comes just after the Mountain View giant debuted a new email migration system that allows the users to replace their old email technology with Google Apps. "And it's part of our ongoing commitment to meet the needs of organizations of all sizes with Google Apps," Rajen Sheth, Product Manager, Google Apps, said today.

"We're excited to announce that we've agreed to acquire Postini, a company that offers hosted security and compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications. Postini already serves more than 35,000 businesses and 10 million users and was one of our first Google Enterprise Partners for Google Apps," the Google employee said. "Postini's offerings are a natural complement to our technology, and we are excited about giving businesses the opportunity to make the leap to hosted applications, such as Google Apps, more quickly."

In the recent period, Google has done several efforts to improve the communication capabilities of its solutions. A long time ago, the Google officials announced revolutionary functions for Google Talk, the instant messaging client that ensures the communication between two or more consumers. Basically, the search giant plans to include innovative VoIP capabilities to make its own product able to compete with more powerful products currently on the market. However, this new acquisition supports Google's plans and brings some new functions to the Googleplex that could never be created by the engineers.