Voxeo, a unified communications service provider, announced it acquired IMified, a hosted instant messaging application platform. Terms of the transaction were not released.
[1]IMified is Voxeo's third acquisition in the past 12 months, and it gives Voxeo a platform API to communicate with any IM network or platform, according to the company. The IMified platform lets users build new IM applications without having to worry about interoperability with other proprietary IM solutions, and it also allows for IM functionality to be added to other, existing applications.
IMified claims that more than 7,500 developers currently use its platform for IM customer service bots, package tracking, emergency notifications and customer surveys, among other uses.
"Instant messaging is a natural extension to voice self-service and is an important piece of any company's unified communication strategy," said Jonathan Taylor, Voxeo's president and CEO, in a prepared statement. "IMified significantly expands Voxeo's unified communications offerings with the world's largest IM application platform and most experienced development team."
Voxeo said all IMified employees have been retained and that it will not modify terms of service for IMified users or developers.
For more:
- see the press release here [2]
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Links:
[1] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/video-voxeo-acquires-imified/2009-05-28
[2] http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/05/prweb2465474.htm
[3] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/voxeo-buys-voiceobjects/2008-12-09
[4] http://www.fiercevoip.com/story/voxeo-reaches-asia/2008-08-19