ClairMail, VeriSign Team Up

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and NOVATO, Calif. -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) the leading provider of digital infrastructure for the networked world, and ClairMail, Inc., the leader in 2-way mobile phone-based customer interaction, today announced that VeriSign will integrate ClairMail’s secure 2-way mobile customer interaction platform and applications with the VeriSign® Mobile Banking Solution. The integration agreement is part of a global technology solution alliance between the two companies.

The agreement reflects VeriSign’s strategy to meet the changing needs of financial institutions by leveraging its global infrastructure for mobile messaging and content delivery. ClairMail’s scalable platform and breakthrough technology combined with VeriSign’s messaging and operations infrastructure will facilitate bringing this revolutionary solution to market rapidly, benefiting financial institutions of all sizes.

“VeriSign is the leader in trusted managed services for ecommerce, security and financial services customers. We are confident that their world class messaging and operations infrastructure will enable banks, credit card issuers and brokerage customers to accelerate the use of the mobile device as a channel for 2-way customer interaction,” said Joseph Salesky, CEO of ClairMail. “This partnership enables a broad feature set for mobile banking to be delivered to a wide set of financial institutions in an on-demand, trusted managed service.”

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