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November 23, 2009 11:24 AM ET
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Visto Corporation

Company Overview

Visto Corporation provides mobile messaging services for mobile operators. It offers Visto Mobile, a platform for mobile service providers to deliver push email, calendar, contacts, and various corporate data to a set of devices; and Visto open solution, which enables email for the mass business market. The company also provides Visto Mobile Internet Edition, which provides mobile push emails for up to five Internet email accounts; Visto Mobile Personal Edition, which is designed for individuals and small groups, offices, and departments with less than five people; and Visto Mobile Enterprise Edition, which is used in larger organizations and allows information technology managers to install...

Detailed Description

101 Redwood Shores Parkway

Suite 400

Redwood City, CA 94065

United States

Founded in 1996

Phone:

650-486-6000

Fax:

650-622-9591

www.visto.com

Key Executives

Co-Founder and Executive Vice President
Co-Founder
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Operating Officer
Compensation as of Fiscal Year 2009.

Key developments for Visto Corporation

Research in Motion and Visto Corporation Sign Definitive Agreement to Settle Outstanding Litigation

Research In Motion Ltd. and Visto Corporation announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement to settle all outstanding worldwide patent litigation between the companies. The key terms of the settlement involve RIM receiving a perpetual and fully-paid license on all Visto patents, a transfer of certain Visto intellectual property, a one-time payment by RIM of $267.5 million and the parties executing full and final releases in respect of all outstanding worldwide litigation. The settlement is expected to be completed during the week of July 20, 2009 and is subject to certain closing conditions.

VISTO Mobile 6 Supports Google's Android Platform

Visto Corporation announced that VISTO Mobile(TM), including the recently launched VISTO Mobile 6, now supports Google's Android mobile operating system. VISTO supports the broadest array of mobile devices and mobile operating systems including Windows Mobile, Symbian, Palm OS, Java, iPhone, and now Android. Available on over 400 mobile devices worldwide, VISTO Mobile provides the industry's most user friendly mobile email and messaging services on the broadest range of mobile handsets worldwide. As part of its ongoing commitment to providing support for the widest variety of mobile phones, VISTO also works closely with handset manufacturers to simplify the mobile experience. VISTO Easy Setup(TM) is a simple, automated process that installs and sets up mobile email almost instantaneously. With VISTO Easy Setup, mobile users need only to launch an on-screen VISTO SmartIcon(TM) directly from the home screen of the device to enjoy fast and immediate mobile access to all of their email, calendar, contacts and tasks.

Visto Launches Industry's First Push Mobile Social Networking Solution

Visto Corporation announced VISTO Mobile(TM) 6. Extending mobile communications beyond email with an integrated experience, VISTO Mobile 6 is a suite of offerings for mobile phones designed to enable end users to connect with friends, family and colleagues in real time in any number of ways including email, social networking, SMS, IM and photo sharing. With VISTO Mobile 6, VISTO is extending beyond mobile email to leverage its technology by bringing greater convenience and functionality to users of mobile media and social networks. Featuring an innovative living address book, VISTO Mobile 6 offers end users expanded push mobile email and mobile social networking capabilities. This living address book combines favorite contacts from multiple sources, including social networks, into a seamless user interface. VISTO Mobile 6 utilizes VISTO's patented push and synchronization technology to keep users constantly up to date in real time on their messaging and social networking activities.

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