Tuesday, January 17, 2017

j2 Global Buys Six More Companies

Los Angeles-based j2 Global, which is by far Southern California's most active acquirer of technology companies, announced this morning that it has acquired six more companies. j2 Global said it acquired Fonebox, Everyday Health, CudaMail, Unified eMail, Abaxio, and GreenFax, all during Q4 of 2016. j2 Global and Everyday Health had announced in September that j2 Global would pay $10.50 per share in cash, or approximately $465M, for Everyday Health. The terms of the remainder of the acquisition were not announced by the company. Fonebox is in the cloud/voice area in Australia, Everyday Health is an online publisher, CudaMail is an online email provider in Canada, Unified eMail is an email marketing company. Abaxio is a cloud backup provider, and GreenFax a cloud FAX service.

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