Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP

Ooma dials up $18.3M for free landlines via VoIP

Ooma, provider of a voice-over-internet box that lets users make free land-line calls, brought in $18.3 million in a fourth round of venture financing, reports paidContent. It raised $14 million of this sum back in June.

Based in Palo Alto, Calif., the company says it now… Continue Reading

Ooma raises $14M more amid tough round

Ooma raises $14M more amid tough round

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Ooma, the much-hyped company that sells an expensive VoIP box ($249) that you can install in your homes to make free land-line calls, has raised another $14 million in venture capital, we’ve confirmed.

TechCrunch reported the story earlier, but loosely reported that financing “wiped out” earlier… Continue Reading

Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more

Roundup: Veoh sues, MySpace’s tiny profit, Nirvanix, Wikipedia’s color-coding, more

Here’s the latest action:

Veoh Networks files preemptive suit against Universal Music Group — Veoh, the San Diego video start-up we’ve written about, said it filed the suit to assert its rights as a copyright-compliant company after UMG threatened it with litigation.

Geni gets cloned by a German… Continue Reading

Ooma’s free land-line calling service

Ooma’s free land-line calling service

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Ooma, a Palo Alto company, is letting you make free land-line phone calls to anyone in the United States.

It hopes to let people share their phone lines with each other to bypass having to use a major telecom companies.

Here’s how it works: You install an… Continue Reading

Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more

Roundup: Netvibes2Go, Ooma, Wesabe, Second Life voice, Google traffic, more

Here’s the latest action:

Netvibes offers Netvibes2go — Netvibes, the company that has gotten buzz with its cool personalized home page service, is offering a mobile version called Netvibes2Go. It lets you access all your info — contained in useful modules, including email, calendar, to-do list and… Continue Reading

Ooma, home communications co., raises $12M

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Ooma, a secretive Palo Alto, Calif. company that has labored for more than two years to produce a telecommunications product for the home, has raised $12M of an $18M Series B round, according to a regulatory filing cited by PE Week. Return backers include Worldview… Continue Reading