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Private equity company Hg has agreed to invest in Combell Group, a Belgium-based hosting services provider for SMEs across Europe. Waterland Private Equity exits its shareholding in Combell as part of the transaction.

International private equity firm, Cinven, has announced that their Sixth Cinven Fund has agreed to acquire One.com - a large European web hosting services provider established in Denmark in 2002. One.com has 270 employees and serves more than 1 million customers, with a focus on Northern Europe.

1-grid.com, a Capetown, South Africa-based company offering web hosting, domain names, email hosting, SSL and malware security solutions, will be bundling Comodo cWatch Web security tools together with its web hosting services.

Adobe Portfolio has announced a partnership with Namecheap to make purchasing and connecting custom domain names simple and seamless. Adobe Portfolio Customers can now buy and connect a domain name without leaving the web design platform thanks to built-in domain integration powered by web hosting provider Namecheap.

CenTex Hosting, a web hosting company delivering shared hosting, dedicated servers, VPS hosting, colocation, and managed services, has selected Ezeelogin’s SSH Jump server security solution for securing its server infrastructure in operation.

All-in-one automation, billing, client management and support software provider for the web hosting industry, HostBill, has announced integrations of its software with GoDaddy, ClouDNS, Amazon Route53, AbuseIPDB and Webroot.

The maker of operating systems for web hosting providers, CloudLinux, has hired Jim Jackson as President and Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Jackson will report to CloudLinux Founder and CEO Igor Seletskiy.

Canadian Web Hosting, has released its ‘Secure Communications’ solution. This managed security service is brought to Canadian Web Hosting customers by Evizone, a secured communications, encryption, and compliance software & service provider based in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

Namecheap, one of the largest and fastest-growing U.S. companies according to the 2018 Inc. 5000, has reached more than 10 million domains under management, cementing its place as one of the world's top domain registrars.

U.S. web hosting company InMotion Hosting has announced a partnership with Automattic – the provider of Wordpress toolkit Jetpack - for InMotion Hosting’s Managed WordPress Hosting product line.

The maker of operating systems for web hosting providers, CloudLinux, has acquired Revisium for an undisclosed sum. Founded seven years ago, Revisium delivers malware cleanup automation and its products until now have cleaned hundreds of thousands of websites worldwide.

cPanel, the web hosting automation software platform well-known in the worldwide hosting industry, has been acquired by a group of investors led by Oakley Capital. The group also owns Plesk and SolusVM. Oakley Capital acquired Plesk in May 2017, while Plesk in turn acquired SolusVM, which supplies software for VPS management, among other things.

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Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Endurance International Group employs over 3,500 people. Net loss for the company’s second quarter of 2018 was $2.0 million, compared to net loss of $39.1 million for the second quarter of 2017.