GetVocal
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GetVocal inc. is a communications incubator company focused on developing and marketing next generation communication technologies and platforms. Current startups include:

Twelephone (http://twelephone.com) - Twelephone is bringing realtime voice, video, instant messaging, and presence to Twitter using HTML5 WebRTC (real time communications) technology and Node.JS.

Surf-by-Tel (http://surfbytel.com) - This technology transcodes HTML Web pages and RSS feeds to VoiceXML and visa versa to deliver speech recognition and text-to-speech technology to enable callers to surf the web using any telephone and their voice! This technology is perfect for mobile professionals and the visually impaired. Surf-by-Tel also supports MP3 files to allow your callers to listen to podcasts and music over the telephone or VoIP connection - even live streaming events!

Startups sold to date:

Teleku (http://teleku.com) - Cloud communications platform and API (similar to Twilio and Tropo) sold to Voxeo

http://techcrunch.com/2010/03/29/teleku-takes-on-twilio-helps-developers-integrate-telephony-services-into-web-apps/
http://gigaom.com/2010/08/11/voxeo-tropo-teleku/

Nodester (http://nodester.com) - Opensource Node.JS Platform-as-a-Service (similar to Nodejitsu, Heroku, and AppFog) sold to AppFog

http://mashable.com/2011/01/18/node-fu/
http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/28/appfog-acquires-nodester-as-two-platform-as-a-service-providers-become-one/

Recent Milestones
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GetVocal — GetVocal launches Twelephone, realtime voice, video, presence, and IM for Twitter (1/14/13)

Posted 1/15/13 at 7:52pm via techcrunch.com
GetVocal — GetVocal launches and sells Nodester (opensource Node.JS PaaS) to AppFog (8/28/12)

Posted 1/1/13 at 11:39am via techcrunch.com
GetVocal — GetVocal Sells Teleku to Voxeo (8/11/10)

Posted 9/28/10 at 6:45am via gigaom.com
GetVocal — Teleku partners with I6NET to deliver Asterisk support of PhoneML and TwiML cloud-based telephony solutions (3/1/10)

Posted 3/6/10 at 10:06pm via tumblr.com
GetVocal — GetVocal Launches Teleku (new cloud-based telecom company delivering Phone Web Service APIs to Web developers allowing them to easily build and host Voice and SMS phone applications.) (2/22/10)

Posted 2/26/10 at 9:13am via tumblr.com
GetVocal — Launched Spree.ly (social shopping) (11/19/09)

Posted 11/28/09 at 10:06am via blogspot.com
GetVocal acquired Gospelr. (9/21/09)

Posted 9/23/09 at 10:24am via churchcrunch.com