A week ago, I asked the question: how serious is Yahoo about voice? It seems they are quite serious! Much of it might have to do with Brad Garlinghouse who according to Andy was one of the big guns at DialPad, and is bringing the VoIP religion to Yahoo.
Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to the VoIP party, but the company is quickly making up for lost time. Barely a month after launching its own VoIP enabled IM beta product, the company snapped up DialPad, a VoIP company that sells PC2PC and PC2Phone services to consumers. “What we saw in DialPad was quick way to add PC2Phone and inbound calls,” says Joanna Stevens, Yahoo’s VP of Corporate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product.
Andy explains quite well, when he writes: Dialpad provides Yahoo immediately with a proven platform that delivers least cost routing, the Dialpad engine that routes international traffic and enables termination plus gives them the billing, OSS and capability to make a Pre-Paid offering that terminates and possibly originates PSTN calling. Clearly this means Yahoo is going after the international audience and is looking to go right after Skype.
Update#2: Yahoo confirmed the deal, declined to talk numbers and assured me that Yahoo’s broadband partners (read Bells) are well aware of its voice plans.
Update#1: Craig Walker just called and confirmed the deal.
Scoop: Did Yahoo just buy VoIP operator, DialPad? I guess the next last thing to Skype? The PR folks at Dialpad were in a meeting and were thrown in a tizzy when I rudely interrupted their deliberations. We cannot comment on this, please call our CEO, is what I was told. Everyone seems to be in a meeting, and I called Craig Walker, the CEO and was told he was in a meeting. I am told, Yahoo is busy gathering Dialpad employees with new employment offers.
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[...] ialPad Well, well, the VoIP space is full of activity today! Om says here that DialPad is not a Yahoo property. DialPad is an also ran in the Skype dominated comput [...]
[...] ialPad Well, well, the VoIP space is full of activity today! Om says here that DialPad is not a Yahoo property. DialPad is an also ran in the Skype dominated comput [...]
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Om…you are the scoop guru.
Yahoo Buys Dialpad Gets Serious About VoIP
In a nutshell: Yahoo is taking on Skype. “Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to the VoIP party, but the company is quickly making up for lost time. Barely a month after launching its own VoIP enabled IM beta product, the company snapp…
[...] porate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product. Source Advancedippipeline asks themselves: How long until Microsoft and Google react [...]
[...] porate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product. Source Advancedippipeline asks themselves: How long until Microsoft and Google react [...]
[...] porate Communications. Yahoo will integrate Dialpad’s services with its new IM product. Source Advancedippipeline asks themselves: How long until Microsoft and Google react [...]
Well they certainly have an installed base of IM users to provide this. Now, the question is who will provide Skype the portal experience? M’soft or Google? I have a feeling it is M’soft given Skype’s technology bias towards Windows CE environments. If Yaho now integrates news, media, and VOIP based IM chat into the messenger environment, it could be a winner.
Just another example of broadband providers descending into low-margin commodity hell. SBC et al know exactly what’s going on. I would say they’re just waiting for the right time to drop a load of cash on a few winners and roll the services into their own offering. The only problem with this plan is that Yahoo, MSFT, Google et al might beat them to it. Time to sh*t or get off the pot…
[...] el Yahoo! Messenger y empezarán a competir más fuerte con Skype. La exclusiva la tiene Ohm Malik y hay más información en Engadget. Esta anotación fue escrita el [...]
Yahoo Acquires Net Phone Provider and Ping Service
Yahoo has gone out and acquired an internet telephone (VoIP) service….
Yahoo! move appears to force RBOCs to stop stalling and enter VoIP full force, or face disasterous consequences in the near future. Further, if cable companies, such as Comcast, want to be major players in voice, they, too, had better act fast. It might be best for cable companies to unite, and offer the same VoIP service. And wVoIP adds an interesting, probably influential, dimension. Any predictions on what the telephone scene will be like a year from now?
Yahoo! VoIP adds punch with Dialpad
Businessweek just reported that Yahoo! has just acquired DialPad Communications. Dialpad is a PC to Phone provider made famous by offering free PC to PSTN calls into the US in 2000-2002. They no longer provide free pc to pstn service…
Yahoo Getting Into Voice…
Om has the scoop……
¿Yahoo! ama a Skype?
Con un título extraño producto del signo de exclamación perteneciente al nombre de Yahoo! (TFTLT) les contamos que Yahoo! podría estar interesada en hacerle locamente el amor a Skype y producir una familia de multimillonarios. Por el blog de Paul…
Yahoo buys dialpad
Yahoo! has had a frenzy of activity this year, and it’s still early. It has just been announced that Yahoo has purchased dialpad, a VoIP provider. Rather funny since everyone has just been waiting for Yahoo to scoop up…
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Yahoo Japan’s been offering IP phone service for at least a year.
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Yahoo Japan has been offering IP voice for more than 4 years now. There are some fundamental differences: that one is a pure arbitrage play and it is ATA based, requiring connection to PSTN. For example emergency calls go over PSTN.
I am missing the importance and excitment of this acquisition. Yahoo now will replace Net2Phone with Dialpad. A reseller service has been replaced by an in-house service. Other than that how will things change?
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Xten Softphone SDK Delivers PC-to-PC VoIP in New Yahoo! Messenger
eyeBeam SDK Licensed to Enhance PC-to-PC VoIP in Instant Messaging Xten Networks, Inc. announced today that Yahoo!, a leading global Internet company, has licensed Xten’s eyeBeam software development kit (SDK) to deliver SIP-based PC-to-PC VoIP in the…
[...] ortedly also has its fingers in the VOIP pie. Om Malick looks into the acquisition on his Broadband Blog : Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to [...]
[...] three stats are from Om’s post on the VoIP market Thoughts On the Acquisition Om Malik on Broadband Yahoo confirmed the deal, declined to talk [...]
[...] three stats are from Om’s post on the VoIP market Thoughts On the Acquisition Om Malik on Broadband Yahoo confirmed the deal, declined to talk [...]
[...] three stats are from Om’s post on the VoIP market Thoughts On the Acquisition Om Malik on Broadband Yahoo confirmed the deal, declined to talk [...]
Bloggers Break Yahoo! Buy of Dialpad
If the traditional media companies aren’t already nervous about the amazing rise of dot.com era superstars Google and Yahoo, they should be. And if the traditional business press isn’t word about blogs, well, let’s hope they stay that…
SEMphonic Competitive Analysis, Yahoo! Buys VOIP Player Dial Pad
SEMphonic is a new competitive analysis research tool. Google toolbar bundled with WinZip. Washington Times switches from Google to Yahoo! Search. EFF offers a legal guide to bloggers. Yahoo! snaps up VOIP player Dial Pad.
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shaping the VoIP business chain
Yahoo, one of the largest web portals, bought dialpad, a Califonia-based VoIP call subscription provider, on June 14th, marking the beginning for yahoo to acquire small VoIP service providers, reported by both Gigaom.com and Conrante.com The acquisitio…
Om Malik on Yahoo! purchase of Dialpad
Interesting comments from Om Malik over at his blog on Yahoo!’s plans after its acqusition of Dialpad:Yahoo, like other IM providers might have been late to the VoIP party, but the company is quickly making up for lost time. Barely
Any idea on the numbers?
What was Dialpads revenue like? Their margins? Profits/losses? Capitalization? Cash on hand?
How did Yahoo value them?
Yahoo! Takes the VoIP Plunge…
The big news today, as reported by Om Malik: Yahoo! got serious about adding VoIP to its portfolio and acquired Dialpad, the well-known VoIP operator. Almost everyone I know used Dialpad for free calls to the US at some point circa 199…
[...] window.document.getElementById(‘post-4499′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’; Yahoo bought DialPad and perhaps that is an incentive enough for other majors – Google [...]
[...] tena , miezi baada ya shirika la yahoo kuongeza himili ya simu hizi kwenye programu yao ya messenger , shirika la microsoft nalo linasemekana linanyanyua misuli yake na kili ta [...]
[...] tena , miezi baada ya shirika la yahoo kuongeza himili ya simu hizi kwenye programu yao ya messenger , shirika la microsoft nalo linasemekana linanyanyua misuli yake na kili ta [...]
[...] tena , miezi baada ya shirika la yahoo kuongeza himili ya simu hizi kwenye programu yao ya messenger , shirika la microsoft nalo linasemekana linanyanyua misuli yake na kili ta [...]
[...] Vling Beta Gizmo Project, the SIP-based Skype competitor is creating a lot of buzz. Yahoo is making (VoIP) noise with Dialpad, and soon Microsoft will have something in t [...]
[...] mentioned that they spent $122 million on acquisitions and other activities. That would be DialPad, Flickr, and TeRespondo. Nearly $72.4 million was paid out in cash. The big qu [...]
[...] of relying only on Web browsers or e-mail, the company said on Monday. Guess, that DialPad acquisition was not for nothing. Yahoo, atleast has realized how critical its IM softw [...]
An Open Letter to Maclean’s…
Steve Maich’s recent column, “Nothing to blog about” , extolls the same tired sentiment and wild speculation that the rest of the mainstream media wrote about a year ago. That many members of the mainstream media–the Times and BusinessWeek being…
[...] ” clients is nothing but Silicon Valley’s version of keeping up with Jones. Yahoo (via DialPad acquisition), Microsoft (via Teleo acquisition), AIM, Google Talk and Appl [...]
DIALPAD voice quality is HORRIBLE….not worth using even if it were free!!!
[...] June 14: Yahoo! Buys Dialpad Communications, potentially turning the longstanding Internet portal with over 87 Million Yahoo! Messenger subscribers worldwide into a communications vehicle that some say will rival Skype. Om Malik on Broadband [...]
[...] Similarly, Yahoo! acquired DialPad, a VoIP company that sells PC2PC and PC2Phone services to consumers. [...]
The rhetorical question above was: “… how serious is Yahoo about VoiP?”
The answer is: “Not very.” Since they acquired DialPad the quality of service and the abilty to connect PC2Phone on Intl. calls has deteriorated significantly. Sometimes I have to dial 10 to 20 times to reach Brazil.
They were serious about BUYING a VoiP Company, not running one.
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We both used Dial Pad when it first came available…OH…did we have problems…it blew up many times…but we kept using it till we had over an hour of use betweet ct. and ca.. We should have invested it it…we helped dial pad become part of ya hoo….enjoy..Dial Pad..we sure did…Rob P and Dave S.
We both used Dial Pad when it first came available…OH…did we have problems…it blew up many times…but we kept using it till we had over an hour of use betweet ct. and ca.. We should have invested it it…we helped dial pad become part of ya hoo….enjoy..Dial Pad..we sure did…Rob P and Dave S.
We both used Dial Pad when it first came available…OH…did we have problems…it blew up many times…but we kept using it till we had over an hour of use betweet ct. and ca.. We should have invested it it…we helped dial pad become part of ya hoo….enjoy..Dial Pad..we sure did…Rob P and Dave S.
[...] derrière GrandCentral il y a un français expatrié du nom de Vincent Paquet qui avait déjà vendu une startup à Yahoo (DialPad). C’est donc sa seconde réussite. Félicitations à [...]
[...] bought Dialpad a couple of years ago and let Jeff Bonforte, man behind Yahoo Messenger and former SIPPhone [...]
[...] services as of today. When I was backtracking for news on this acquisition, I stumbled upon GigaOM, who seems to have been the first to report the [...]
[...] was looking to capitalize on opportunities in Internet Telephony. Brad left Dialpad to join Yahoo, which then later acquired Dialpad. Garlinghouse told us that he has no opinion about introducing VoIP based services to the AOL. A [...]
[...] Om Malik broke the news that Yahoo is buying Dial Pad. [...]
[...] was led by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet (now of GoogleVoice-the duo that founded GrandCentral). Dialpad, was purchased by Yahoo back in 2005 which in Internet Time is akin to the ice age [...]