Comments on: Tellme Price – $800 Million, or More http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/ Wed, 22 May 2013 07:25:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations « WTI NewsBlog http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137490 Tue, 11 May 2010 17:36:06 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137490 [...] comes from Tellme co-founder Angus Davis, who is reapplying some of the speech recognition principles he capitalized [...]

]]> By: Swipely Aims to (Politely) Turn Purchases Into Conversations http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137489 Tue, 11 May 2010 14:00:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137489 [...] comes from Tellme co-founder Angus Davis, who is reapplying some of the speech recognition principles he capitalized [...]

]]> By: Microsoft Looks To Buy TellMe Networks http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137488 Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:36:55 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137488 [...] may be ready to pay eight hundred million, or possibly more, to acquire TellMe Networks. TellMe is a voice applications company that enables speech recognition, and could be very [...]

]]> By: Why would Google build a mobile device?! : Green & White http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137487 Mon, 07 May 2007 20:34:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137487 [...] a business angle, it is perhaps the only best way for Google to compete with the Microsoft + Tellme [...]

]]> By: Why would Google build a mobile device?! : Green & White http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-168676 Mon, 07 May 2007 20:34:07 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-168676 [...] a business angle, it is perhaps the only best way for Google to compete with the Microsoft + Tellme [...]

]]> By: jeffgreco.com » TellMe taken — terrific! http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137486 Sat, 17 Mar 2007 23:29:18 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137486 [...] GigaOM reports that voice controlled telephone services company TellMe has been purchased, by Micros…. Good for them! I’ve been using their flagship product for years. It’s always worked extremely well, and even allowed me to set up a dial-in pirate radio station of sorts 5 or so years ago. By using VoiceXML (I believe it was called) and their developers center, I could dial 1-800-555-TELL, say “Developers”, say my unique ID (94556), and then I’d get a menu offering me any of three different, horribly compressed rap songs. Fun times! Little Jeffy using code! [...]

]]> By: Tellme Offered $800 Million For Its Secrets http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137485 Thu, 15 Mar 2007 06:07:57 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137485 [...] of dollars for a company that specializes in it. Name of the company? Tellme. Ballpark figure? $800+ mil. Chump change, we [...]

]]> By: All Points Blog http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137484 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:19:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137484 Your Voice is Worth 800 Million…

Om has an interesting take on why TellMe may be worth 800 million – voice input additions to Local Mobile Search. Surely that’s not the only use for this technology as Om points out, but…
The real reason will be Microsoft Mobile and non-PC devices…

]]> By: Dan http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137483 Wed, 14 Mar 2007 02:20:39 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137483 Nice piece, makes sense – but to says “Windows Mobile is growing like crazy” is pretty hyperbolic. The article you cite says that mobile phone makers are consolidating operating systems – but Symbian is gaining dominance, and MS is losing market share:

“Last year, two-thirds of smart phones sold ran on Symbian’s operating system, an increase of about four percentage points from 2005, according to Canalys, a consultant and market research firm based near London. Microsoft was second last year with a 14 percent market share, slightly less than the year before.”

]]> By: William http://gigaom.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137481 Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:55:40 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2007/03/12/tellme-price-800-million-or-more/#comment-137481 Bob says:
…The call center apps are way beyond hosted IVR.

Not sure where you get your data. Newer technologies companies (such as mentioned above) have built fully blended IVR, Predictive Dialing & ACD onto a multi tenant platform.
Just take a look at Angel.com and tell me how they are different from TellMe. Angel.com is all about “Call Center”. The deal with Domino’s allows for data dips into a database similar to ANI caller ID and screen pop. I would argue that Angel.com has more to offer than TellMe to 80% of businesses that require IVR and call handling. What I don’t know is if Angel.com is also using Nuance technology as well. If so, they are screwed and limited! Somebody had posted that TellMe had/was developing a “newer” platform based on using NO Nuance technology.

I give a huge amount of credit to TellMe for taking a quarter of BILLION dollars and surviving through the Telecom meltdown of 2001-2003 and looking to soon realize what looks to be a 8x multiple acquisition on revenue. IMPRESSIVE!

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