--- begin forwarded text Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:17:12 -0700 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: John Muller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Press release re Digicash asset sale Sender: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> List-Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I don't recall seeing this on the list: PRESS RELEASE August 17, 1999, Seattle, Washington, USA eCash Acquires Technologies from DigiCash eCash Technologies, Inc., based in Seattle, Washington, is pleased to announce its acquisition of the technologies of DigiCash Inc. These technologies include the patented "blind signature" encryption scheme that is the only known method of providing electronic cash on the Internet. eCash Technologies designs, develops and markets Internet payment software products that facilitate e-commerce. One of these products is � which incorporates the blind signature encryption into user-friendly software. � may be used to make purchases on the Internet in any denomination which are secure, private, non-counterfeitable and non-repudiable. � is the only virtual equivalent to hard currency and is being used by a growing number of multi-national banks and Internet merchants. eCash Technologies is committed to fostering open e-commerce standards and is currently receiving requests to license its various technologies. Interested parties should send licensing inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please direct all non-licensing inquiries to [EMAIL PROTECTED] The investors in eCash Technologies include Ruloff Capital of Vancouver, Canada, August Capital of Menlo Park, California, Applied Technology of Boston, Massachusetts, and Gilde IT-Fund of The Netherlands. August Capital, Applied Technology and Gilde IT-Fund were shareholders of DigiCash and have carried their interests over to eCash Technologies. All trade marks are owned by eCash Technologies, Inc. http://www.ecashtechnologies.com John Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy" --- end forwarded text ----------------- Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
