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 Ooma “hub” device, costing a $399 one-time fee, in your home. This routes phone calls through your computer or your land-line. Ooma’s device also sends and receives calls for other… 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 Technology Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson, the report said

Not mentioned, however, is the investment by Sean Parker, partner at the Founders Fund. Parker invested last year, a source tells VentureBeat.

The… Continue Reading