The acquisition of email service providers continues. Last week Deluxe (yes, the check printing people) acquired Vertical Response. This appears to be positioning themselves to improve their collection of business services to include email marketing.
Return Path recently announced changes to their certification program. They will no longer be certifying 3rd party mailers.
Read MoreThere has been an ongoing, concerted attack against ESPs recently. Today ReturnPath published some of what is known about the attack.
Read MoreReports today say that Salesforce is buying Exacttarget for around 2.5 billion dollars.
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