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June 14, 2005
Yahoo buys dialpad
Posted by Arieanna Foley
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 Skype. Well, right idea, wrong company.
Yahoo's purchase of Dialpad will give them fast entry to VoIP services on their own terms, rather than using the services of others (such as their past use of Net2Phone). As well as VoIP, Yahoo gains all of Dialpad's fraud management detection that can be made use of in other Yahoo areas.
So, we can see Yahoo moving all over the place to build an integrated space with value adds. Definitely moving much faster than either MSN or AOL. Wonder what kind of ripple effect this new acquisition will cause.
I caught wind of this news on Andy Abramson's blog, but Om Malik broke the news first.
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1. Andy Abramson on June 14, 2005 08:30 PM writes...
Thanks, Stowe. Credit goes to Om Malik as he found it first..I just smoked out a bit more...
Permalink to Comment2. Andy Abramson on June 14, 2005 08:38 PM writes...
Should have said Arieanna Foley..I saw Stowe's mug and figured.....
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