The company developed many of its telephony and video messaging services until 2018, when Dialpad's interest in artificial intelligence and its possible uses in TalkIQ 's platform led to its acquisition. Yahoo Voice was ended in 2013, three years after founding UberConference, and UberConference bought the brand and domain back from Yahoo and renamed it Dialpad. Craig Walker worked for Google in developing Google Voice until 2010.įollowing his departure from Google Voice, Craig Walker founded UberConference, which built on internet telephony services for the conference call industry. Following this, Craig Walker went on to found GrandCentral Communications, another web-based service that allowed users to merge existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into a single account the company was bought in 2007 to be the foundation of Google Voice. This initial company was later sold to Yahoo for the building blocks of Yahoo's VoIP service, called Yahoo Voice. Dialpad has had a winding route, with the company initially founded in 2001 by Craig Walker as an internet telephony company, at the time called Dialpad Communications.

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