Tellme Networks is a company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, based out of Mountain View, California, in the United States, that specializes in telephone-based applications. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M". The deal closed in late April. Tellme's phone network processes more than two billion unique calls per year.
In 2000, Tellme launched an internet platform that delivered content to...
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Tellme Networks is a company founded in 1999 by Mike McCue and Angus Davis, based out of Mountain View, California, in the United States, that specializes in telephone-based applications. Tellme Networks was acquired by Microsoft on March 14, 2007 for "close to $800M". The deal closed in late April. Tellme's phone network processes more than two billion unique calls per year.
In 2000, Tellme launched an internet platform that delivered content to telephones — a concept frequently called voice portals. Early competitors included TelSurf Networks, BeVocal, Hey Anita and Quack.com, which was founded in 1999 and acquired in September, 2000 by America Online to power its competing service AOL By Phone. At least 10 additional competitors appeared in 2000 in various attempts to mimic the funding success of Tellme.
Voice portal customers build Internet-powered, voice-enabled applications on the Tellme Network using Tellme Studio. Tellme Studio is a Web-based VoiceXML development tool. The...
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