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Article: Microsoft-owned Tellme tells successful acquisition tale Tellme is a company happy to be owned by Microsoft.(Wire Business)(The technology firm sold to the software giant 10 months ago and hasn't looked back)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 1, 2008
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Byline: Michael Liedtke The Associated Press
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Mike McCue hasn't talked to Yahoo Inc. co-founder Jerry Yang since Microsoft Corp. ambushed the Internet pioneer with an unsolicited takeover bid a month ago.
But McCue would like his old friend to know that becoming a Silicon Valley subsidiary of the world's largest software maker can work out well.
Becoming a cog in a corporate machine isn't something McCue had in mind during the eight years that he spent building Tellme, which makes the technology behind directory assistance and other voice-controlled services. It ranks as Microsoft's largest Silicon Valley acquisition so ...