May 2009, its IP/MPLS backbone counted 90 Points of Presence and extended over 17 European countries and across the United States and Hong Kong. Its Autonomous System (AS3257) was a core ASN in the global Internet routing table, as well as the largest IPv6 backbone outside Asia. The network was sold to the Italian private equity firm BS Private Equity SpA on 27 May 2009, and renamed Tinet. Tiscali ran similar Web portals for each of its countries, which include features such as Webmail, reviews, news, videos, dating, chat, radio, TV guide, streaming TV channels and others. Tiscali published a self-branded Web browser of the same name which was distributed with its dial-up Internet packages. The browser used the core of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser to display web pages. Distribution of the software ended during Tiscali's corporate rebranding in 2004. Tiscali offered dial-up Internet access in Finland under service name Surfeu. Tiscali Campus in Cagliari had 1,000 employees as of early 2013. The center includes a development division for Internet technologies. Researchers working there included Antonio Tuzzi (one of the developers of Apple's macOS), Luca Manunza (inventor of the first Webmail service), and Domenico Dato (developer of Arianna, the first Italian search engine). Financial and economic data On 31 December 2020 it had 530 direct employees, and 5,199,124,915 common shares. Customers include about 673,000 households and companies. In 2021 shareholders of Tiscali included Renato Soru (6,08%) and Amsicora S.r.l. (16.65%). See also Tiscali Italia Tiscali International Network Tiscali Mobile Tiscali TV Tiscali UK References External links Companies based in Cagliari Telecommunications companies established in 1998 Internet service providers of Italy Italian brands Telecommunications companies of Italy