VoIP provider Dialpad, the company behind the popular video conferencing service UberConference, today announced that it has acquired Highfive, a well-funded video conferencing startup that focuses on

With messaging apps like WhatsApp, Line, and Viber fighting for growth around the world, is there room for smaller, newer players? Charge Messenger thinks so and to prove that point, it just announced

One of the earliest members of both Google and Google Ventures has found a new home. Today Wesley Chan is announcing that he has joined fellow Google alum Aydin Senkut at Felicis Ventures, where he wi

Unified communications has long been touted as the future, but being able to provide access to all of one's calls and messages on multiple devices is an idea that has just barely come to fruition. Now

Facebook might be positioning itself to build new features around voice navigation or voice-activated search into the social network, thanks to the hiring of Google product designer Mike LeBeau. While

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.mkiiventures.com/">MkII Ventures'</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ron-palmeri">Ron Palmeri</a> joined us in the TechCrunch TV studio f

After a brief hiatus for SXSW, Ask A VC is back this week with <a target="_blank" href="http://www.mkiiventures.com/">MkII Ventures'</a> <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/ron-p

Today, <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/11/30/google-acquires-waterloo-based-e-commerce-startup-amazon-locker-competitor-and-yc-graduate-bufferbox/">Google bought an Ontario-based company called B

<a target="_blank" href="http://www.uberconference.com/">UberConference</a>, the online, visual conference calling solution (and <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/23/uberconference-wins-techcru

In a matter of days, the team from <a target="_blank" href="http://www.firespotter.com/">Firespotter Labs</a>, makers of conference calling solution <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uberconferenc

Although it was only a month ago that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.firespotter.com/">Firespotter Labs</a> CEO <a target="_blank" href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/craig-walker">Craig Wa

Only a few weeks following its <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2012/05/23/uberconference-wins-techcrunch-disrupt-nyc/">TechCrunch Disrupt NYC win</a>, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.uberconferenc

Is Google Voice (previously GrandCentral) co-founder <a href="http://www.crunchbase.com/person/craig-walker">Craig Walker</a> getting back into the VoIP game? According to a <a href="https://twitter.c

You've probably heard of a few newish venture-operator groups out there -- <a href="http://betaworks.com/">Betaworks</a>, <a href="http://www.churnlabs.com/">Churn Labs</a> and <a href="http://science

<a href="http://www.firespotter.com/">Firespotter Labs</a>, makers of the food photo-sharing app <a href="http://www.nosh.me/">Nosh</a> (and more recently, the hilarious spoof app <a href="https://tec

The cofounder of Google Voice is back for more. And he's hungry. Back in May <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/05/04/google-voice-ceo-craig-walker-launches-firespotter-a-google-ventures-funded-i

<a target="_blank" href="http://prismskylabs.com/">Prism SkyLabs</a> was able to <a href="https://techcrunch.com/2011/07/13/stealthy-prism-skylabs/">draw media attention</a> before it was even launche

A couple weeks ago, a stealthy startup called <a href="http://prismskylabs.com/">Prism SkyLabs</a> was formed in San Francisco. Already it's creating buzz among angel investors. It's site is not muc