Outblaze is a technology company that develops and provides digital media products and services including smartphone games and other apps, social media applications, computer and video games, online transaction systems, and web communication software. Although it started out as an application service provider of hosted Web applications, the company gradually transitioned to the video game industry. In 2009 Outblaze sold its messaging business unit in order to focus primarily on digital entertainment.
History
Outblaze was founded in 1998 in Hong Kong and received considerable media attention around the time of the dot-com bubble.[1] At the peak of its activity in the messaging sector, Outblaze was reported to provide services to over 75 million users around the world, with 40 million email accounts[2] operated by Outblaze plus at least 35 million[3] protected by Outblaze's anti-spam solution. In 2009 Outblaze sold its messaging assets to IBM