YouMail, Inc. and GotVoice, the voice messaging company, have reportedly entered in to a strategic agreement to improve their service offerings and revenues.
YouMail has concluded the agreement by acquiring the existing users of the free GotVoice (News - Alert) Lite service, and will license GotVoice's patented and patent-pending G2 communications platform to expand YouMail's free and premium service capabilities.
The whole acquisition will help YouMail increase the size of its core user base and provide services to users whose wireless carriers don't traditionally support conditional call forwarding.
"This collaboration is advantageous for both companies and we're thrilled to be affiliated with YouMail," said Curt Blake (News - Alert), CEO, GotVoice, Inc. "It's a testament to our technology that another significant consumer-facing company has chosen our market-leading white label platform for their voicemail transcription and unification needs."
YouMail can now focus on providing the best consumer voicemail experience, while leveraging GotVoice's business-class voicemail-to-text transformation services using GotVoice's G2 (News - Alert) platform for voicemail aggregation and transformation.
"Partnering with GotVoice will allow us to accelerate our path to scale and profitability by growing our audience and rolling out exciting new features and services more rapidly," said Alex Quilici, YouMail's CEO. "We're very pleased to be working with GotVoice and leveraging their proven technology platform."
YouMail has been rigorous in growing its market share andhas completely customized customer’s voicemail experience,users are now allowed to retrieve their voicemail online, in e-mail, on their mobile phones, or by calling in, and choose to listen or read their messages. YouMail users can also determine which callers get which greetings and when, how they are notified about voicemail, which callers can leave voicemail and even how voicemails are picked up - in e-mail, online, or over the phone.
“We’re committed to providing our users with the most innovative mobile voicemail service,” said Alex Quilici, CEO of YouMail. “That’s why we are thrilled to offer our users the option to read their voicemail, helping them save time and letting them access their voicemail when it would otherwise be inconvenient.”
Headquartered in Aliso Viejo, CA (News - Alert), YouMail was found in January, 2007 and is backed by Vantage Point Venture Partners and Tech Coast Angels. Company provides free, cell phone voicemail services.
Jyothi Shanbhag is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Jyothi's articles, please visit her columnist page.Edited by Jessica Kostek
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