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Acquired bySymantec
Price$1.28B
Date3/10
TermsCash

General Information

Websiteverisign.com
CategorySecurity
Phone650-961-7500
Email
Employees3,650
Founded1995
DescriptionIT services

Offices

HQ
487 East Middlefield Road
Mountain View, CA, 94043
USA

People

V.P. Managing Director - Enterprise Wireless Solutions

Former People

Innovator
VP of International Solutions and Market Development
EVP, CTO, Head of Global Product Design
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Acquisitions

Total$520M
Global Name Registry, 10/08
m-Qube, 3/06 $250M
LightSurf, 1/05 $270M

Investments

Air2Web 9/06

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VeriSign Authentication Services

VeriSign operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet’s thirteen root nameservers, the generic top-level domains for .com and .net, one of the largest SS7 signaling networks in North America, and the RFID directory for EPCGlobal. VeriSign also provides a variety of security and telecom services ranging from digital certificates, payments processing, and managed firewalls to mobile call roaming, toll-free call database queries and downloadable digital content for mobile devices. The company groups all of these functions under the banner of ‘intelligent infrastructure’ services.

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Verisign

Sources

  1. Symantec buys authentication assets of VeriSign for $1.28B (venturebeat.com) [edit]
  2. Domain Name Consolidation: Verisign Acquires .Name Guys (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  5. Air2Web Announces $25 Million Financing Led by The Carlyle Group to Extend Global Leadership as Full-Service Mobile Marketing Provider (air2web.com) [edit]
  6. VeriSign to Sell Authentication Services Business to Symantec for $1.28 Billion (press.verisign.com) [edit]
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