Microsoft acquires Ray Ozzie's Talko

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Microsoft has announced that it has acquired Talko, a company founded by ex-Microsoft Ray Ozzie, producer of a mobile app for business communications. Talko employees will be joining the Skype team at Microsoft, and they will mainly be working on Skype for Business.

In a blog post, Microsoft’s Gurdeep Singh Pall said:

I am pleased to announce today that Microsoft has acquired technology from Talko, maker of an innovative mobile app for on-the-go business communications. As part of the agreement, Talko employees will join the Skype team. Together, the new technology and talent will help us deliver great new features and capabilities in both Skype and Skype for Business.

Talko's web site also posted:

Today we’re announcing that Talko’s been acquired by Microsoft to help fuel future innovation in Skype and Skype for Business.

As part of the Skype team, we’ll leverage Talko’s technology and the many things we’ve learned during its design and development. We’ll strive to deliver the best of our product’s innovations far more broadly than on our current path. We deeply appreciate the commitment that so many of you made in betting on Talko. You invested your time and your reputation to convince your friends and co-workers to use the product with you.

Talko itself will be shutting down by March 2016, and users will be allowed to export all their past Talko conversations. 

All good talent to pour into the Skype teams, of course. Goodness knows the product needs it - I still get quirks on mobile and find that the Windows and Mac version of Skype are real resource hogs.

Source / Credit: Microsoft