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Microsoft, Seeking to Beef Up Services, Buys VOIP Specialist





Google is Microsoft's No. 1 enemy, undeclared.

From Wall Street Journal:

Microsoft Corp. bought a small maker of technology for handling phone calls over the Internet, part of a push by the software giant to make communications services the center of its battle with Google Inc. and others.

The Redmond, Wash., company this week closed a deal to buy closely held Teleo Inc., a San Francisco maker of voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, technology, which allows users to make calls over the Internet to regular telephones, cellphones or PCs.

Terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Teleo, which was founded in 2003, has fewer than 25 employees. The company's operations will be integrated into Microsoft's office in Mountain View, Calif.

The acquisition comes as Microsoft is trying to exploit its lead over Google in communications services such as instant messaging. Microsoft in recent years has tried, with middling success, to catch Google in the smaller company's core area of Internet search.

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