{"id":4172,"date":"2006-02-01T13:29:57","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T13:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/google-buys-tellme.html"},"modified":"2006-02-01T13:29:57","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T13:29:57","slug":"google-buys-tellme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/google-buys-tellme.html","title":{"rendered":"Google Buys TellMe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: \">One of the predictions <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedeal.com\/servlet\/ContentServer?pagename=Home&#038;c=Page&#038;cid=1011714706980\">The Deal<\/a> made on CNBC today is that Google will buy voice portal pioneer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tellme.com\/\">Tellme<\/a>. This is a logical acquisition as Tellme is a very strong player in voice portals and as a bonus is profitable. The acquisition would allow people to access Google&#8217;s services from telephones almost as easily as they do on the web. As a bonus, their office is not too distant from Google&#8217;s. Here is an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\/co\/0102\/0102po.htm\">article<\/a> I wrote from a few years back talking about Tellme.<\/p>\n<p>On a side note, when I last visited Tellme&#8217;s offices I was pretty fascinated by the open office atmosphere. It was almost as if they set up a leading edge technology company in the middle of a gymnasium. It seemed like a fun place to work and seems to have a culture that would mesh nicely with Google&#8217;s own.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the predictions The Deal made on CNBC today is that Google will buy voice portal pioneer Tellme. This is a logical acquisition as Tellme is a very strong player in voice portals and as a bonus is profitable. The acquisition would allow people to access Google&#8217;s services from telephones almost as easily as<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,215,211,118,191],"tags":[283,825,826,17],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}