Amazon.com has got another delivery service in mind: helping shuffle your office e-mail messages.
The e-commerce giant is expected to announce an e-mail and electronic calendar service called WorkMail, according to The Wall Street Journal, which claims the service would directly compete with a corporate e-mail market largely controlled by Microsoft
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and to a lesser extent, Google
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The Journal reports that Amazon’s pitch to clients will focus on simplicity of use and security. It will offer WorkMail to companies at a monthly cost of $4 for each email inbox on WorkMail, a price range similar to what is offered by Microsoft’s 365 service and Google Apps for Business, WSJ reported.
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wasn’t immediately available to comment on the initiative. It is the company’s latest effort to move beyond the traditional e-commerce business and become a more expansive Web behemoth. Amazon’s hardware initiatives include tablets, e-readers and smartphones, while the company also has a cloud storage service and streaming platforms, among other tech offerings.
Corporate e-mails generate a majority of e-mail traffic, and in 2014 they accounted for over 108.7 billion e-mails sent and received each day, according to technology research firm Radicati Group. Meanwhile, the firm projected the number of worldwide e-mail accounts will climb from over 4.1 billion accounts last year to 5.2 billion by the end of 2018.
