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• TaguchiMail Completes Additional Capital Raise

  July 1^st, 2008

  The Directors of TaguchiMail are pleased to announce that the company has completed a second capital raise.

  The additional funding will allow the company to continue its business development, sales and software development roadmap.

  In addition, the injection of funds will allow the business to continue to recruit the best possible talent. Says Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail, “We are focussed on driving revenue, acquiring customers and building out our distribution channel. We have been delighted with our progress to date and the additional support shown by our investors continues to validate our business model”. The specific details surrounding the amount of the raise are not disclosed.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349

• TaguchiMail welcomes Luke Wong

  July 1^st, 2008

  Luke Wong has been appointed Senior Designer, User Interface and Experience.

  Luke previously worked with realestate.com.au and has a solid track record in web design and programming. Says Simon Chen, CEO TaguchiMail, “We had been trying to recruit Luke for several months. We had worked with him previously in another life and he is in our mind, one of the best web designers we have ever worked with. I am thrilled to have him on board”.

  Luke will oversee all end-user interfaces and be responsible for the management of the design team.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349

• Dean Maidment appointed Chief Operating Officer

  June 15^th, 2008

  As the former Marketing Manager of Australia’s most successful online travel company, Webjet.com.au, Dean has over seven years hands on experience in online marketing, communication and operations.

  Dean was at Webjet from its inception as a public company start up in 2000 to September 2007 where its Total Turnover Value (TTVL) was annualised at approximately AUD $330M.

  Due to the initial start up nature of Webjet, Dean was part of a small senior management team, and was across all commercial areas of the business from software development and implementation, airline and GDS contract negotiations, Brand Management and compliance (online and offline), customer service, BPO outsourcing, finance, corporate reporting, public relations and communications through to ASX reporting and communication compliance.

  With 20 years experience in the travel industry and particular travel automation and online systems, Dean brings a rare combination of technical and commercial skills that will be invaluable to the growth of the TaguchiMail and the execution of its business plan.

  Dean will oversee all operational and back office requirements of TaguchiMail’s business, both locally and internationally.

  Says Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail “I am delighted that Dean accepted another start-up challenge. He is a pleasure to work with, highly capable and has a enviable reputation in the travel sector. His operational and administrative skills will be critical to TaguchiMail’s growth challenges.”

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349

• TaguchiMail joins StrongMail Reseller Program

  June 3^rd, 2008

  

  TaguchiMail officially joins the StrongMail Reseller Program.

  Says Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail, “Many of our clients are large enterprises with significant email volumes. They can no longer depend on either their internal solutions or 3rd party providers. The StrongMail suite of on premise email hardware solutions, combined with TaguciMail’s patented optimization technology, gives marketers a distinct edge over their competitors. It made sense for us to be able to provide a single, seamless solution to our clients across Asia Pacific. This decision continues to strengthen the partnership between our 2 organisations”.

  Jessica Nussbaum, Director of Sales for Asia Pacific says, “TaguchiMail clearly has significant on premise solutions expertise and their team are a welcome addition to our ever growing presence here in Asia Pacific. We are thrilled to have them join our Reseller Program and are confident of their ability to add significant value to our combined clients”.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349

• Pixel Group joins TaguchiMail™ Reseller Program

  May 23^rd, 2008

  

  Pixel Group, one of Melbourne’s leading digital agencies has recently been selected as a Premium Reseller of TaguchiMail’s email marketing solutions.

  Says Stephen Marovitch, Founder of Pixel, “we were often asked by our clients to provide them with email marketing solutions and prior to TaguchiMail, were not that impressed by the relative inflexibility of the products and services available in the marketplace. TaguchiMail, in my mind, has altered the competitive landscape with their dynamic content optimisation feature, plus their strong focus on deliverability and sender reputation”.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349 or Stephen Marovitch, Pixel Group on +61 3 9826 8589

• Catalyst International joins TaguchiMail™ Reseller Program

  May 19^th, 2008

  

  The management of TaguchiMail are delighted to welcome Catalyst International, one of Melbourne’s leading marketing, communications and online agencies to the company’s Reseller Program.

  Says John Skinner, Managing Partner of Catalyst International “Since day one, we were impressed with TaguchiMail’s approach to email. Their analytics bent and their ability to dynamically optimise email content made it a product we wanted to align not only ourselves with, but our clients”. Says Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail, “The agency market is an important distribution channel for us. Having blue chip agencies such as Catalyst (who are a member of the STW Group) join our ranks validates the quality of our offering. John and his team at Catalyst are true professionals, have a very stable client base and have been an extremely successful business these past 15-years. We are excited with the opportunities ahead.” Disclosure: Catalyst International is retained by TaguchiMail for all strategic communications. John Skinner, Managing Partner of Catalyst is a member of the TaguchiMail Advisory Panel.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349 or John Skinner, Managing Partner, Catalyst International on +61 3 9820 2666

• TaguchiMail™ wins MCM Entertainment

  May 7^th, 2008

  

  TaguchiMail, an industry leading provider of optimised broadcast email, today announced that MCM Entertainment joined their rapidly growing client list.

  MCM Entertainment is one of Australia's most innovative media entertainment groups. With an expertise in music and entertainment media production, mcm creates advertiser driven properties across traditional and new media platforms.

  Says Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail, "We are delighted to earn MCM's business. As far as email marketing, they are already well ahead of the pack and we are looking forward to providing additional levels of efficiencies via the TaguchiMail API and unique optimisation feature".

  Cameron Moore, CTO of MCM responded with the following, "TaguchiMail clearly understood our business and our future requirements. The flexibility of their email platform and its ease of integration made vendor selection fairly easy"

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349 or Cameron Moore, CTO, MCM Entertainment on +61 410 427 197

• TaguchiMail™ selects StrongMail as global MTA provider

  May 1^st, 2008

  

  TaguchiMail announced today that it has selected StrongMail as its core hardware platform provider globally.

  Says Ben Dyer, CTO TaguchiMail, “We were impressed with the performance, technology and rich feature set the StrongMail MTA platform provides and hardware selection was an easy choice. Integration with the TaguchiMail API was straightforward and the combination of StrongMail’s hardware plus TaguchiMail’s optimisation technology provides a winning solution for marketers”. StrongMail is the leading provider of on-premise solutions for marketing and transactional email. The StrongMail press release can be viewed here

  For further details, contact Ben Dyer, TaguchiMail +61 403 960 785

• Loki Davison joins TaguchiMail™

  April 18^th, 2008

  The TaguchiMail leadership welcomes Loki Davison as Senior Programmer. Loki joins the rapidly growing Technology Team at TaguchiMail.

  Previously Loki was working with Intrepid Travel and Host Exchange. Says Ben Dyer, CTO TaguchiMail, “Loki was a rare find and as soon as he submitted his application, we were intrigued and knew he would be a good fit”. TaguchiMail’s hiring process of technical staff is unique in its approach. Applicants are asked to submit a piece of code (theirs or someone else’s) and are asked about its strengths from a technical perspective. Says Ben Dyer, “This simple test alone weeds out 97 from 100 candidates”. We’re looking forward to working with Loki and welcome him to the team.

  For further details, contact Ben Dyer, TaguchiMail +61 403 960 785

• Hippo Engages TaguchiMail™

  April 3^rd, 2008

  

  The leading job website in the 15-24 demographic, Hippo Jobs has engaged TaguchiMail to handle all its email marketing requirements.

  James Masini, Founder and CEO of Hippo says, “Our email database has doubled in size in the past seven months. We selected TaguchiMail because if its unique ability to adapt seamlessly to our back-end, which is relatively complex, given the profile data we collect on behalf of our job candidates. The TaguchiMail application’s unique flexibility, plus the fact that their system has the capability to virtually track every minute detail we need, made selection easy”. Simon Chen, CEO of TaguchiMail commented, “Hippo is a company on a mission and its growth and early success made them an entity we wanted to partner with. Their various forms of communication (to both advertisers and job candidates), plus the fairly complex integration of our proprietary API to the Hippo systems, gave us an opportunity to demonstrate TaguchiMail’s flexbility and scalability”.

  For further details, contact Simon Chen, TaguchiMail +61 418 349 349

• TaguchiMail™ is Hiring

  March 24^th, 2008

  TaguchiMail, the world’s most advanced email optimization service provider, has technical openings.

  If you’d like the chance to work at a well-backed, dynamic start-up with a great work environment (Google aren’t the only ones who can provide complimentary food and drink), the best equipment (i.e. a Mac) and the opportunity to write great code, then read on.

  Don’t send us your CV, or a cover letter. No-one reads them anyway. What we want is the following:

  - A reasonably comprehensive section of code (either yours or someone else’s, we don’t mind);
  - A clear, concise and eloquent explanation of the merits of said code;
  - A summary (i.e. one paragraph) of the reasons you’d like to work for us; and,
  - A summary (again, one paragraph) of your relevant experience with Python, PHP, SQL (MySQL/SQLite) and Apache development.
  

  Please forward all applications to jobs@taguchimail.com. We accept documents in plain text or PDF; multi-file code samples should be tarred and compressed via gzip or bzip2.

  Please no phone enquiries. If you must, phone +61 3 9225 5500, and ask for Ben Dyer, our CTO.

• TaguchiMail™ Launches Website

  March 24^th, 2008

  The new TaguchiMail website was launched today. The site, which was designed and built by the Pixel Group in Melbourne, has an environmental slant to it, bringing the carbon-neutral philosophy of the company to life.

  The site will encompass all facets of web optimization and the content and email messaging will be linked into the TaguchiMail application. Visitors to the site will be able to see actual web statistics and metrics in real time.

  “I have always been impressed with Pixel’s professionalism and their efficiency in managing web projects,” says Simon Chen, CEO and Co-Founder of TaguchiMail.

  “It was an easy decision to engage them.”

  Pixel has been awarded a 12-month contract to build and manage the TaguchiMail web presence, including the TaguchiMail application user interface.

  For further information, contact Simon Chen on +61 3 9225 5500, or Stephen Marovitch from Pixel on +61 3 9826 8589.

• Reseller Beta Program Launched

  March 18^th, 2008

  TaguchiMail announced today that it has launched a private beta of its forthcoming reseller program. Initially available in Asia only, the program is designed for digital agencies and email service providers.

  “It is abundantly clear that the market wants what TaguchiMail offers — that is, broadcast optimized email,” says Simon Chen, CEO and Co-Founder of TaguchiMail.

  “It is not our intention to build a global sales force and do the heavy sales lifting when a perfectly acceptable go-to-market model already exists,” he continues.

  The TaguchiMail Reseller Model allows agencies, digital specialists and email service providers to offer the TaguchiMail suite of products directly to their clients, under a private-label agreement if they wish.

  For further information, or to request access to the beta program, contact Simon Chen on +61 3 9225 5500, or email here.

• TaguchiMail™ Engages Watermark

  March 1^st, 2008

  

  The Management and Advisory Panel of TaguchiMail today engaged Watermark, Australia’s leading patent and trademark law firm, to manage TaguchiMail’s IP protection processes.

  “It is critical that we as a company protect our intellectual property, both here and internationally,” says Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, Chairman of the TaguchiMail Advisory Panel.

  It is anticipated that the first patent, which covers the unique TaguchiMail optimization algorithm, will be lodged at the US Patent & Trademark Office by the end of March, 2008.

  For further information, contact Simon Chen on +61 3 9225 5500, or email here.

• TaguchiMail™ Assembles Advisory Panel

  March, 1^st 2008

  The management of TaguchiMail is delighted to announce the formation of the company’s Advisory Panel.

  The members include Dr. Greg Trainor, Dr. Michael Hewitt-Gleeson, Mr. John Skinner, Mr. Glenn Vardy and Mr. Breck Hilton.

  To learn more, click here.