Corante (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Beemask is an anonymous calling service looking to partner with dating sites. Geek.com wrote them up. Beemask is free, which I don’t understand. Didn’t they learn from Jangl and Match? I thought that perhaps anonymous calling would take off in the online dating space. It didn’t. People just pick up the phone and call each [...]
Corante (Free subscription) | 06/17/2008
Several executives at top dating sites have contacted me to discuss the effect the mass exodus of top management from Jangl would affect MatchTalk, which is powered by Jangl. Today I heard back from Michael Cerda, founder of Jangl, about the current situation. Jangl was acquired by Live Universe and continues to power Match.com and Adult [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
After passing on the acquisition of the now defunct Jangl, WhitePages.com has agreed to purchase Snapvine’s VoIP service. As with many other VoIP services that have gained traction in the past two years, Snapvine spent a great deal of resources on integration with social networks, effectively giving users a way to connect via phone [...]
Mashable (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Everybody knows that after Jangl died off, that its one-time partner > Jajah came out better in the end. The VoIP company has made major strides in finding ways to integrate its services into third party sites and applications. It's entire telephony platform is hoping to change the way in which we all communicate [...]
Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Over the last two weeks, rumors have swirled around the industry as to the fate of the once promising voice start-up Jangl, who looked to be in shambles after running out of cash and seeing the departure of their co-founders and engineering team to JAJAH. For those of you not familiar with Jangl, they are [...]
VOIP IP Telephony (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
The last we wrote about Jangl, or rather about the end of Jangl , we thought that Jajah would make something out of Jangl but it is Live Universe who picked up what ever was left behind after everyone jumped the ship. But it remains to be known what the fate of all the partners, like plentyoffish. You can get more info at TechCrunch . Tags: VoIP business , Jangl , Jajah , Live Universe , plentyoffish...
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 05/17/2008
More on Facebook profile changes: The feed wall — The new profile is slated for launch later this year. The latest new feature the company is previewing: A “feed” portion of the new design, where you can easily add content from within a standardized interface. The goal is to make Facebook easier to use. The [...]
TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Just over a week ago the founders of and five engineers from VoIP services provider Jangl left for Jajah after the company failed to find a proper suitor. Following their departure, it was unclear what would happen to Jangl's assets and remaining staff. Now we hear from a source close to the deal that Live [...]
VoIP News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
With Jangl going out of business and rumors of TalkPlus being next, there are a lot of questions swirling about the future of the Internet VoIP business. Could this spell the beginning of the end for the industry? Some experts say no. VoIP News has a great article on this. Here’s a snippet: Jangl launched its free [...]
Corante (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
Jangl, which powers the anonymous calling feature on Match.com and several social networks, has expired. The founders are going to work for Jajah, which powers eHarmony's anonymous calling service. Sorry to hear the news, I like the Jangl team and their PR team was top notch. Hopefully Jajah will find a place for them where they [...]
Fierce VoIP (Free subscription) | 05/12/2008
VoIP companies Jangl and TalkPlus are both for sale, reports Om Malik. The VC community isn't interested in further Read more...
Remove the Labels (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
It appears that several mid-sized VoIP companies are failing to realize their potential and being edged out of the market. One of the biggest of these companies is Jangl, a VoIP business that began by offering anonymized online calling and then moved on to the development of click-to-call VoIP widgets for social networking sites. Despite [...]
VentureBeat (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
The back-story on Jangl's slow death — Yesterday, we reported on Jangl's asset sale process. A tipster tells us that Seattle-based WhitePages had offered to buy Internet phone company Jangl for $20 million, but then kept the company in diligence for more than a month and walked away at the last minute — giving Jangl [...]
Online Personals Watch (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
GIGAOM -- May 7 -- Michael Cerda, former CEO of Jangl along with the cofounder, Ben Dean and three other Jangl employees is joining Jajah. "The company was finding its groove in the marketplace, but our investors though it wasn't enough for us to keep going, and decided not to fund us", Cerda said. Jangl had raised about $9m in VC funding from Storm Ventures, Labrador Ventures and Cardinal Ventures....
Tom Keating (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
Om over at GigaOm writes that Jangl was looking to sell itself earlier this week and is "headed towards an ignominious end" and adds that Talkplus "is going nowhere fast". I wrote a detailed write-up on TalkPlus , interviewing TalkPlus CEO Jeff Black at ITEXPO and my biggest fascination was how the supposedly reverse engineered Skype. I wrote, "One final interesting thing we talked about at ITEXPO...
