| Date | Title | Description |
| 02.03.2025 | Getting a lot of unwanted phone calls? Here are ways to stop them | Phone settings
Smartphone users can turn on some built-in settings to combat unknown calls.
Apple advises iPhone users to turn on the Silence Unknown Callers feature. Go to your “Settings,” then scroll down to “Apps,” and then to “Phone,” w... |
| 19.07.2024 | The Ongoing Battle for Net Neutrality: Telecom Industry Strikes Back Against Consumer Protections | In a recent development, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a temporary hold on the implementation of popular net neutrality rules, marking a potential victory for the telecom industry in their efforts to dismantle crucial consum... |
| 17.07.2024 | SIP Forum Publishes Conference Agenda for SIPNOC 2024 - THE Gathering Place for the Call Authentication Community | “Focus on the Call and Text Authentication Ecosystem”
The Full Agenda and Schedule of Events for the 13th Annual SIPNOC conference is now live, and features an array of sessions focused on the Call Authentication ecosystem and the continuin... |
| 19.07.2023 | The SIP Forum Announces Call Authentication-Focused Conference Agenda for SIPNOC 2023 is Now Live | The SIP Network Operators Conference SIPNOC is THE gathering place for the call authentication community, and with its return to in-person proceedings, we look forward to sharing the expertise and real-world experiences essential to the ong... |
| 22.06.2023 | The SIP Forum Opens Registration for SIPNOC 2023 - the 12th Annual SIP Network Operators Conference | SIPNOC 2023 will return to live, in-person proceedings, and continue and expand its focus on the broad Call and Text Authentication ecosystem and the continuing efforts to eliminate illegal Robocalls, Caller ID Spoofing, and Robotexts.
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| 17.05.2023 | The SIP Forum Announces KYC SUMMIT 2023 Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | The SIP Forum is proud to announce that the official agenda and webinar registrations are now live for the KYC SUMMIT 2023, a special virtual event focused on 'Know Your Customer' Strategies, Solutions and Best Practices.
NORTH ANDOVER, Mas... |
| 25.08.2022 | FCC, State Action Nets An Amazing 80% Reduction In Auto Warranty Scam Robocalls | We’ve frequently noted how stupid it is that we’ve ceded a major communications platform to robocalling scammers and scumbags. We’ve noted for just as long that many regulatory “solutions” to the robocall problem have been dumb and half-hea... |
| 04.03.2022 | The SIP Forum Announces SIPNOC 2022 Webinar Series Registrations Are Open | SIPNOC 2022 will focus on issues critical to the successful deployment and operation of STIR/SHAKEN, as well as associated topics including the ramifications of governmental regulatory, legislative and enforcement actions and critical secur... |
| 03.03.2021 | THE ANNOYANCE ENGINE: Spam robocalls became profitable scams by exploiting the phone system, but you can stop them | It’s not just you. Spam calls are out of control. iStock; Insider
Spam robocalls are on the rise, and the reason is they’re incredibly profitable.
Court decisions have paved the way for telemarketers to get away with spam calls scot-free.
Y... |
| 12.12.2019 | How to stop spam calls right now | Image: fizkes, Getty Images/iStockphoto Mobility must-reads
Android 13: The best features to expect
Best password managers for Mac and iOS
Mobile malware is on the rise: Know how to protect yourself from a virus or stolen data
6 easy tips f... |
| 26.05.2016 | 5 popular tactics scammers and hackers use to steal your identity | Though stealing someone’s identity is illegal, there are plenty of sneaky but legal tactics scammers and hackers employ that can expose you to identity theft as well. The first step in preventing this distressing scenario is being aware of ... |
| 26.05.2016 | The 9 most robocalled cities in America | iStockphoto
According to one estimate, Americans will get a whopping 30 billion robocalls this year. YouMail, a telecom services company, said that in the first four months of 2016 an estimated 10 billion robocalls have already been made --... |
| 08.10.2015 | YouMail freshens up an old standby: Voicemail | One could be forgiven for thinking that voicemail is a dead medium. However, modern smartphones seem optimized to do pretty much everything except voice messaging -- and perhaps that's why opportunities exist for voicemail alternatives like... |
| 06.03.2015 | Funding roundup - week ending 3/6/15
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | Nextdoor, YouMail, RockYou, Tempered Networks, Culture Amp, Vanhawks, Alation, Farfetch, WorldStores
Seed stage
Smartbike startup Vanhawks raised $1.6 million from Real Ventures, Simon Whitfield, Brenda Irwin and various angels.
Product vis... |
| 05.03.2015 | YouMail Raises $5.5 Million In Series B Funding | Cloud-based telecommunications platform company YouMail has raised $5.5 million in a Series B round of funding. This means YouMail has raised over $20 million in debt and equity. |
| 05.03.2015 | YouMail Raises $5.5M Series B Round |
IRVINE, CA, YouMail successfully completed a $5.5 million Series B round.
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| 04.03.2015 |
YouMail Raises $5.5M
| Irvine-based YouMail, the cloud voicemail service led by Alex Quilici, has raised $5.5M in a Series B funding round, according to the company. YouMail said the new round brings its total raised in debt and equity to just over $20M. YouMail ... |
| 03.03.2015 | YouMail uses JOBS Act to raise $5.5M round
Retrieve Voicemail Online or By Phone | The company bypassed venture capitalists and raised its funding from 30 private investors
We've seen the effect of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups (JOBS) Act in how it has affected companies looking to go public, which major players lik... |
| 03.03.2015 | YouMail Raises $5.5M in Series B Funding | YouMail, an Irvine, California-based provider of intelligent cloud telecom services for consumers and small businesses, raised $5.5m in Series B funding.
The company intends to use the funds to expand its base of over 6.5 million registered... |
| 10.04.2013 | From The Founder Of Pixable, Contactive Wants To Be The Caller ID For Our Web-Centric World | It was just seven months ago that intelligent photo aggregator app Pixable sold to SingTel, the Singaporean telecom giant, in a $26.5 million deal. It was a very nice exit for the startup, and it would be understandable for its founders to ... |
| 17.04.2012 | Abandon ship: BlackBerry loses YouMail | It is no secret that Research In Motion is in trouble — the company is struggling to find a device that will actually sell and competitors have gained the upper hand in the corporate market where it once dominated. While neither of those ar... |
| 13.04.2012 | After Three Years, Visual Voicemail Service YouMail Calls It Quits On BlackBerry | Freemium visual voicemail service YouMail never forgot their roots — they first launched in late 2007 with the mission of making visual voicemail available to the masses, but soon focused their attention on what was then the market-leading ... |
| 09.12.2011 | T-Mobile To YouMail: We Told You About This A Month Ago | Yesterday something strange happened. YouMail, a visual voicemail app with millions of downloads, was pulled from the Android Market. Confused, YouMail reached out to Google about what the dealio was, only to hear that T-Mobile had requeste... |
| 08.12.2011 | YouMail Pulled From The Android Market At T-Mobile’s Request | Whoa. I’m going to tip toe through this story a bit carefully, as it’d be easy to come off as if we’re rallying the pitchforks. We’ve reached out to T-Mobile for their side of the story, but haven’t heard back just yet.
Here’s what we know:... |
| 10.11.2011 | YouMail Completes Funding Round | YouMail, Inc., an Irvine, CA-based provider of cloud-based, enhanced telecommunications services, recently completed a funding round of undisclosed amount.
Backers include CrunchFund and the Tech Coast Angels ACE Fund.
This investment bring... |
| 07.11.2011 |
YouMail Adds Investor
| Irvine-based YouMail, the personalized voicemail service firm headed by Alex Quilici, has raised around $355,000 in new funding, adding CrunchFund--the investment fund run by TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington--as a backer. Details of the... |
| 07.11.2011 | YouMail Hits 3 Million Downloads, Gets Backed By CrunchFund And Tech Coast Angels | It’s kind of hard to believe: even 4 years after the launch of the iPhone, visual voicemail still isn’t ubiquitous.
That’s where YouMail comes in. Filling in the gaps where most platforms fall short, YouMail brings visual voicemail (and myr... |
| 11.10.2011 | Yap Voicemail Dials In To The Deadpool | A reader tells us Yap Voicemail, a mobile voicemail transcription app for iPhone and Android phones, will soon be no more.
Indeed, a message on the Yap Voicemail product page informs users that the service, which converts voicemails into te... |
| 21.07.2011 | With 1 Billion Calls Under Their Belt, YouMail Surpasses 2 Million Users | Voicemail is terrible. And yet, even with far superior options at their fingertips (read: text messages. Hell, carrier pigeons are better. I’ve never heard of a shady news outlet hacking a celebrity’s carrier pigeon, have you? QED), some fo... |
| 07.07.2011 |
YouMail Ups Funding To $12.5M
| Irvine-based YouMail, the provider of third party voicemail and other cloud-based communications services run by Alex Quilici, disclosed this morning that it has upped its total funding to $12.5M. The funding came from VantagePoint Capital ... |
| 07.07.2011 | 1 billion people have officially ignored you using YouMail, yay! | YouMail, a startup that promises to help you screen creeper-calls, announced Thursday that it has answered over one billion phone calls, with 500 million of those calls occurring since September 2010. The company has also received an undisc... |
| 21.10.2010 | YouMail’s “digital secretary” for voicemail reaches 15M unique monthly callers | YouMail, a startup that provides next-generation voicemail services like visual voicemail, voice-to-text transcription, and custom greetings, announced today that it has reached a new milestone with 15 million unique monthly callers.
That n... |
| 24.09.2010 |
YouMail Raises $410K
| Aliso Viejo-based YouMail, which develops personalized voicemail services, has raised another $410,000 in funding, according to a regulatory filing from the firm on Friday. Source of the new funding was not disclosed. According to the filin... |
| 25.03.2010 | Digital Secretary Service YouMail Hits 1 Million Users, 300 Million Handled Calls | Voice mail is a pain, but it doesn’t have to be. Just ask the million users who’ve now registered for YouMail, a ‘digital secretary’ type service that offers visual voice mail, smart filtering, voice-to-text transcriptions and custom greeti... |
| 09.09.2009 | Voice startup RebelVox could spawn new breed of voice apps | Voice has been transmitted as data for a number of years now, through Skype for example. But the way we use voice hasn’t fundamentally changed: consumers still communicate and leave voicemails in very similar ways as before. Whether voice i... |
| 15.07.2009 |
YouMail Gets $1.5M In Debt Funding
| Aliso Viejo-based YouMail, which develops personalized voice mail and messaging services, has raised $1.5M in a debt financing round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm this morning. No details on the source or terms of the fund... |
| 16.06.2009 | YouMail’s free iPhone app adds to Apple’s voicemail | Apple’s built-in voicemail app gets raves for allowing users to pick and choose messages from a list, like email rather than being forced to listen to them in order like a 1980’s tape-cassette answering machine. But there are extra steps st... |
| 05.07.2008 | Think Before You Voicemail | Voicemail is dead. Please tell everyone so they’ll stop using it.
When I first started out in the real world in the mid-nineties voicemail was an important productivity tool. I remember people talking about the pros and cons of various ente... |
| 19.06.2008 | Latest MobileBeat nominations: NIM, RNM, Waterfall Mobile, YouMail, V-Enable, Buzzd, AppVoyage, Jibe & Morf | The countdown to MobileBeat2008 continues.
Today we’re adding nine companies to the list of nominees for best mobile company. They’ve been selected by an internal VentureBeat panel of experts that evaluated dozens of write-in candidates ove... |
| 05.06.2008 | YouMail rolls out Visual Voicemail for smartphones | Ever since text messaging became a popular thing, I’ve loathed the standard voicemail set-up more and more each day. It’s just so incredibly broken and dated – all of the annoyances of any automated phone system, with the added treat of mes... |
| 18.01.2008 | YouMail Launches New non-Intrusive Advertising Program | YouMail, a free voicemail service, launched a new advertising program this week that will connect brands with mobile users through text-based advertising. This new feature will add short, non-intrusive 40-character marketing messages to the... |
| 16.11.2007 | Funny Voicemail Greetings for YouMail from Salient Media | YouMail, a free cell phone voicemail service provider, has partnered with Salient Media to provide users with comedic voicemail greetings. Some of the greetings from Salient entertainers are free, while other greetings are sold on a subscri... |
| 06.11.2007 | YouMail, for customized voice mail, raises $4.5M | Need a customized voicemail message for when your sweetie calls your cell? YouMail can handle that, although we’re not sure what makes the company compelling enough to take $4.5 million in funding.
The “killer feature” here seems to be the ... |
| 06.11.2007 | YouMail Receives $4.5 Million from VantagePoint Venture | YouMail, a company that provides free cell phone voicemail service, raised $4.5 million from VantagePoint Venture Partners. VantagePoint is a Firm that invests in entrepreneurial companies at all stages of development in the CleanTech, Heal... |
| 06.11.2007 |
YouMail Raises $4.5M
| Irvine-based customized voice mailbox company YouMail said this morning that it has raised $4.5M in a Series A investment, from VantagePoint Venture Partners. YouMail said that the funding will go towards the firm's product development and ... |
| 17.10.2007 | 'YouMail' lets you assign multiple voicemail greetings | I’d like to declare that the Mac vs. PC shtick is old and tired. If you’re releasing a new product, please refrain from spoofing those ads. That is all.
YouMail lets you assign customized voicemail greetings based on who’s calling. Finally.... |
