Parlano Inc., the instant messaging company that rose from the ashes of dot-com flameout Divine Inc., secured $4.5 million in combined investments from Boston-based Longworth Venture Partners and ...

Parlano deal is second move since Microsoft and Cisco vowed to cooperate and compete in the unified communications market. Microsoft late Wednesday said it has acquired group chat vendor Parlano and ...

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SEATTLE (AP) – Microsoft Corp. said Wednesday it will buy a small Chicago-based technology company and add its group-chat software to a broad vision for integrated office communications programs.

Microsoft announced that it is acquiring Parlano, maker of MindAlign, an enterprise group chat application. The deal is expected to close in Q4 of this year. Parlano's chat technology will be baked ...

Further pushing into the unified communications market, Microsoft has announced plans to acquire Chicago-based Parlano, a company that makes the MindAlign online group chat application which enables ...

Microsoft is set to acquire Parlano, a Chicago-based company that makes a product called MindAlign. MindAlign is a "group chat" application that allows multiple users to collaborate with instantaneous ...

Microsoft's recent acquisition of instant messaging vendor Parlano forms the centrepiece of an "aggressive drive" to control the IM market, Gartner noted today. The analyst firm believes that the ...

Microsoft said Wednesday it will acquire a Chicago-based provider of enterprise group chat software to bolster the messaging capabilities of its Office Communications Server and Office Communicator ...