FOSTER CITY, Calif. and BANGALORE, India - June 14,
2004 - FaceTime Communications, the worldwide leader of
solutions that secure, manage and extend instant messaging (IM) and
other forms of real-time communications, today announced it has
completed the acquisition of a Bangalore, India-based development
and quality assurance organization from messaging security
solutions provider Tumbleweed Communications. FaceTime will
leverage the more than 50 additional product development resources
to rapidly increase its product depth, shorten its development
cycle and expand the customer support organization. "Our global
expansion into India has dramatically raised the bar for competing
in today's IM market," said FaceTime President and CEO Kailash
Ambwani. "We will leverage the strong, congruous skill set and
experience of our new resources to increase our market leadership
by expanding our existing product lines, taking future products to
market faster, and adding bench strength to our customer
implementation and support programs." As part of the acquisition,
Sridhar Vutukuri was appointed vice president and country head of
FaceTime India and will be responsible for all day-to-day
operations in Bangalore. Mr. Vutukuri was most recently country
head at Tumbleweed Communications after holding key management and
development positions at ValiCert, CyberCash and Tata Consulting.
"The Bangalore team is comprised of expert technologists who know
how to collaborate effectively with their U.S. counterparts to
jointly develop and launch world-class real-time communications
products," said Mr. Vutukuri. "This is an exciting time for IM, and
an exciting time to be joining IM's clear market leader."
Integrated Solution:
FaceTime Communications delivers the only integrated solutions
that make instant messaging and other forms of real-time
communication safe, secure and manageable in the enterprise.
FaceTime's leading products IMAuditor and RTG500 work together to
provide IT organizations with a layered approach that is essential
to proper management and security of all IM and P2P communications.
This "Defense-in-Depth" approach employs IMAuditor for IM user
policy management on the internal network with RTG500 at the
network perimeter to manage application behavior through deep
inspection of network traffic for protocol analysis that
distinguishes between authorized and unauthorized use. Together,
IMAuditor and RTG500 form a complete solution that aligns all IM
and P2P communications with an organization's business objectives
and government regulations.
About Actiance, Inc. (Formerly FaceTime Communications, Inc.)
FaceTime Communications became Actiance, Inc on January 11, 2011 following an agreement to
transfer the FaceTime trademark to Apple.
FaceTime Communications enables the safe and productive use of Unified Communications and Web 2.0,
including instant messaging, blogs and social networking. Ranked number one by IDC for five consecutive
years, FaceTime's award-winning solutions are used by more than 1,500 customers for the security,
management and compliance of real-time communications. FaceTime supports or has strategic partnerships
with all leading IM, unified communications providers and social networks including AOL, Google, Yahoo!,
Skype, Microsoft, IBM, Cisco, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter.
FaceTime is headquartered in Belmont, California. For more information visit
http://www.facetime.com or call 888-349-3223.
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