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Press release re Digicash asset sale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Hettinga)
Wed Aug 25 22:38:01 1999
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 21:44:31 -0400
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From: Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>
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Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 16:17:12 -0700
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From: John Muller <johnmuller@earthlink.net>
Subject: Press release re Digicash asset sale
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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
licenses@ecashtechnologies.com. Please direct all non-licensing inquiries
to info@ecashtechnologies.com.
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
johnmuller@earthlink.net
john@ecommercelaw.net
"Just because it's simple doesn't mean it's easy"
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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@ibuc.com>
The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
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[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'
