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Michael Arrington at TechCrunch has the buzz:
Take TellMe off the IPO list for this year - We have multiple sources saying that Microsoft has acquired the company. We’re trying to find the price now.
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More details to follow. See our recent coverage of the company here.
There is more background at the links, but in a nutshell, Tellme provides a number of 411 services for mobile phones. It seems like an odd match given their open standards platform and Java mobile phone client, but odder things have happened.
Update: That was quick - rumor denied at the TechCrunch link.
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March 13th, 2007 at 10:51 AM
[...] In February there was a rumor that Microsoft was acquiring mobile phone applications vendor Tellme, but it was promptly denied. Now the rumor is back and the purported price tag is a whopper according to Om Malik: Microsoft Corp. is said to be talks to acquire Tellme Networks, a voice applications company, according to The Wall Street Journal and C/Net News.com. [...]