Microsoft Acquires Teleo, Innovative VoIP Technology
Company
Deal expected to augment Microsofts investments in voice over
Internet protocol technology, opens opportunities to bring
additional powerful customer solutions to MSN Messenger and other
MSN services.
REDMOND, Wash. Microsoft Corp. recently announced it has acquired
Teleo Inc., a provider of voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
software and services that enable the placement of phone calls from
PCs to traditional phones and that deliver this technology in
unique ways through a variety of software and Web applications.
Microsoft expects to combine the technology and expertise of Teleo
with the existing VoIP investments of MSN to further develop
products and services that connect consumers to the people and
information that most matter to them. Financial details were not
disclosed.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered in San Francisco, Teleo is a
privately held company whose initial planned service offering, also
called Teleo, was designed to allow customers to use their PC to
make phone calls to cell phones, regular phones or other PCs.
Through its integration with Microsoft Outlook and Microsoft
Internet Explorer, the Teleo service was designed to facilitate
click-to-call dialing of any telephone number that appears
on-screen, for example through a Web site or via search results or
e-mail.
Laptop Battery VoIP technology already is prominently featured in MSN Messenger
as well as other Microsoft products and services. Microsoft plans
to incorporate and expand upon Teleo technologies, integrating them
into the infrastructure that supports MSN and ultimately projects
delivering new VoIP consumer applications in future releases of MSN
services.
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Thinkpad Teleo has great technology to deliver superior VoIP quality and
an excellent overall customer experience, said Blake Irving,
corporate vice president of the MSN Communication Services and
Member Platform group at Microsoft. This acquisition opens up
infinite opportunities for Microsoft to enable even more
relationship-centric communications experiences for our customers
in the future.
year career in sales and marketing with Hewlett Packard and Apollo Computer. He is a graduate of MIT with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering and computer science and has an MBA from the Harvard Business School. Bill is currently on the boards of Lumigent, Red Hat, and WildTangent. He previously served on the boards of Alias Research (acquired by SGI), Avid Technology, CheckFree, Clarus, Course Technology (acquired by Thomson), Gateway Design Automation (acquired by Cadence), Mainspring Communications (acquired by IBM), MapInfo, Open Market (acquired by divine), Raptor Systems (acquired by Axent, now part of Symantec), Reflectent (acquired by Citrix), SightPath (acquired by Cisco), Spyglass (acquired by Open TV), Student Advantage and Tenth Planet (now part of Mattel).
Microsoft Members of the Teleo executive team will continue to work
closely with MSN following the acquisition, and a number of Teleo
product developers are expected to join the MSN ranks.
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Laptop Computers Its going to be very exciting to see Teleo software extended
into MSN products and services that millions of consumers worldwide
rely upon every day for their information and communication needs,
said Wendell Brown, co-founder of Teleo. The union of our
respective technologies and talents has the potential to deliver
great value to customers.
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