Comments on: Microsoft buys speech recognition company Tellme

The software giant says it is buying Tellme Networks in a deal believed to be in the range of $800 million.

Patents
by rshimizu12 March 14, 2007 11:09 AM PDT: Tellme must have some key patents that Microsoft is interested .; Like this Reply to this comment

Patents
by chuckhoffmann March 14, 2007 11:38 AM PDT: Tellme is the assignee for nine different patents, including US Pat. 6970915, "Streaming content over a telephone interface", US Pat. 6757365, "Instant messaging via telephone interfaces", and US Pat. 6842767 "Method and apparatus for content personalization over a telephone interface with adaptive personalization". Sounds like Microsoft wants to get into the business of sending IMs and content over the phone.; Like this Reply to this comment

If you can not innovate...

by Llib Setag March 14, 2007 12:43 PM PDT

then you must imitate. If you can not imitate, then open your huge
wallet & buy them out...Citizen Gates.

Is MS scheming to be the next AT&T?

It's the New Trend...
by toosday March 14, 2007 1:27 PM PDT: Didn't you hear? Buyouts are the new trend in tech. Google purchased YouTube. Apple purchased CoverFlow. Microsoft purchased TellMe....

It's nothing new.; Like this

Yawn
by solrosenberg March 14, 2007 4:00 PM PDT: All tech companies do acquisitions once they get past a certain size. It's how the game is played.

When MS makes an acquisition it's because they can't innovate, but Google and Apple and Juniper are so innovative they don't need to ... Oh wait, damn, they make acquisitions too.

Give me a break.; Like this

Apple anyone?
by clindhartsen March 14, 2007 8:21 PM PDT: Doesn't anyone ever read on Wikipedia in their freetime? Apple bough out NextStep, which Jobs used to work for, to use their OS as the backbone for OS X. Still, when a company becomes so rich, the option of buying out others becomes an option, as long as you watch out for the feds; Like this

Innovate doesn't mean redo everything
by Gunady March 14, 2007 9:14 PM PDT: It seems that you think innovate means have to recreate everything from beginning. It doesn't have to be like that. If other has done it well and its vision and mission not against each other, acquisition is a positive thing. Almost all big company does it, e.g. Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. If you redo everything, a lot of negative things will happen, for example patent.; Like this