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BlackSpider Technologies Limited was a British software company founded in 2002 and subsequently acquired by SurfControl in July 2006. The Company provided cloud computing services for filtering email spam and other malware. ==History== BlackSpider was a start-up company founded in 2002 by John Cheney〔(【引用サイトリンク】Bloomberg Business Week )〕 in Reading, Berkshire, UK. In January 2004 Casenove Private Equity invested £4.6m ($6.6m) in the business, allowing the organisation to grow into the French and German markets. In July 2006 SurfControl, a UK listed PLC, acquired BlackSpider for £19.5m in cash. At the point of acquition BlackSpider had £4m in revenues, an operating loss of £3.1m and over 1,200 customers. In October 2007 Websense acquired SurfControl for approximately £204m. Following the acquisition of SurfControl by Websense, the original BlackSpider Management Team, including John Cheney, left to found (Workbooks.com ), a provider of web-based CRM software for small businesses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】Workbooks.com Management Team )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「BlackSpider Technologies Limited」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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