Dialpad
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Dialpad Communications was an early pioneer in the Voice over IP
industry that was founded in 1999 after spinning off from Serome Technologies in Seoul, Korea
and moving to Santa Clara, California in the United States
. Dialpad's business model was to give free PC to Phone calls to the US and to monetize the traffic through advertising on the dialing client.
Dialpad raised $68 million in 2000 from CMGI's @Ventures, Serome, and Sterling Payot Capital, among others. A victim of overspending and the dot.com bubble, the company was near closing in late 2001. Dialpad replaced its prior management of Brad Garlinghouse
(CEO), Ted Cho (CTO) and Doug Ahn (President) with Craig Walker
(CEO), Vincent Paquet (VP Bus. Dev. & Marketing) and Michael Tribolet (VP Operations). New management took the company through a Ch. 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2001, and raised an additional $6M from Sang Su Oh, the former Chairman and CEO of Serome. The company grew to be a profitable leader in the industry and was acquired by Yahoo!
in June 2005.
Dialpad was succeeded by Yahoo! Voice
later that year.
Voice over IP
Voice over Internet Protocol is a family of technologies, methodologies, communication protocols, and transmission techniques for the delivery of voice communications and multimedia sessions over Internet Protocol networks, such as the Internet...
industry that was founded in 1999 after spinning off from Serome Technologies in Seoul, Korea
Seoul
Seoul , officially the Seoul Special City, is the capital and largest metropolis of South Korea. A megacity with a population of over 10 million, it is the largest city proper in the OECD developed world...
and moving to Santa Clara, California in the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Dialpad's business model was to give free PC to Phone calls to the US and to monetize the traffic through advertising on the dialing client.
Dialpad raised $68 million in 2000 from CMGI's @Ventures, Serome, and Sterling Payot Capital, among others. A victim of overspending and the dot.com bubble, the company was near closing in late 2001. Dialpad replaced its prior management of Brad Garlinghouse
Brad Garlinghouse
Bradley Kent "Brad" Garlinghouse is currently President of Consumer Applications at AOL which includes services such as AOL Mail, AIM and Mobile. Prior to AOL, Brad was Senior Vice President at Yahoo! running its Communications business...
(CEO), Ted Cho (CTO) and Doug Ahn (President) with Craig Walker
Craig Walker (businessman)
Craig Walker is currently the first entrepreneur in residence to join the Google Ventures team. Walker was previously the Group Product Manager for Real-Time Communications at Google, where he oversaw all of Google’s voice communications products, including Google Voice, Google Talk, and Google...
(CEO), Vincent Paquet (VP Bus. Dev. & Marketing) and Michael Tribolet (VP Operations). New management took the company through a Ch. 11 bankruptcy reorganization in 2001, and raised an additional $6M from Sang Su Oh, the former Chairman and CEO of Serome. The company grew to be a profitable leader in the industry and was acquired by Yahoo!
Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...
in June 2005.
Dialpad was succeeded by Yahoo! Voice
Yahoo! Voice
Yahoo! Voice is a Voice over IP PC-PC, PC-Phone and Phone-to-PC service , provided by Yahoo! via its Yahoo! Messenger instant messaging application. Yahoo! Voice uses the Session Initiation Protocol , GIPS codec and the Dialpad engine for voice transport...
later that year.