Blacksburg and New River Valley based Mailtrust™, a leading business-email specialist and a division of Rackspace® Hosting, announced news that it has selected Cloudmark, the global leader in carrier-grade messaging security, to provide complete spam and phishing protection to Mailtrust's more than 100,000 business hosting customers. Mailtrust has deployed the Cloudmark Authority plug-in for Apache SpamAssassin™ to improve message filtering accuracy and boost system performance. Cloudmark's comprehensive message filtering solution, combined with Mailtrust's proven hosted business-class e-mail services, gives demanding business customers unmatched messaging capabilities, higher e-mail service quality and a markedly improved user experience.
StellarOne Corporation (Nasdaq: STEL) announced Friday that it anticipates joining the broad market Russell 3000 Index when Russell Investments reconstitutes its comprehensive set of U.S. and global equity indexes on June 27, 2008, according to a preliminary list of additions posted on June 13, 2008 on russell.com.
Appalachian Power, a subsidiary of American Electric Power (NYSE: AEP), has made two separate filings at the Virginia State Corporation Commission (SCC). The first addresses the company’s need to increase customer revenue through base rates and the second seeks recovery of additional incremental environmental and reliability (E&R) costs through its existing customer surcharge. The rate increases would affect residential and business customers in the New River Valley.