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Fuze Box, Inc.
Type Private
Founded October 1998
Headquarters San Francisco, California (United States)
Key people Jeffrey M Cavins (Chief Executive Officer); Peter V. Sperling (Chairman and Co-Founder); David F. Hofstatter (Founder and former Chief Executive Officer)
Industry Telecommunications software and services
Products Fuze Meeting; Fuze Messenger; Fuze Movie
Employees ~50 (September 2009)
Website www.fuzebox.com

Fuze Box, Inc. (formerly CallWave, Inc.) is a provider of Internet and mobile based unified communications solutions.

Founded in 1998, Fuze Box is a private company headquartered in San Francisco, California with offices in Santa Barbara, California and Sofia, Bulgaria.

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History

Fuze Box was founded as CallWave by David F. Hofstatter in 1998. Hofstatter secured $30 million in venture funding and then lead the company to profitability in 3 years of operations. In 2004, CallWave achieved approximately $40 million in revenues with $12 million in net earnings. Hofstatter took CallWave public in September of 2004 under the NASDAQ ticker name CALL.[1]

While a public company, CallWave experienced a steady decline in sales and profits including losses for the years 2006 through 2008. Sales declined to $20 million with a net loss of $5.6 million in 2008.[2] The stock price dropped to under $1 in early 2009, thus failing to meet NASDAQ minimum standards.[1]

On July 3, 2009, CallWave (now renamed Fuze Box) bought back all public shares and delisted itself from NASDAQ.[1][3]

Products and services

Corporate governance

Board of Directors:

  • Peter Sperling
  • Jeff Cavins
  • Jerry Murdock

Management team:

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External links


CallWave Inc.
Type Private
Founded October 1998
Headquarters San Francisco, California (United States)
Key people Jeffrey M Cavins (Chief Executive Officer); Peter V. Sperling (Chairman and C0-Founder); David F. Hofstatter (Founder and former Chief Executive Officer)
Industry Telecommunications software and services
Products FUZE Meeting; Internet Answering Machine; High Definition Audio Conferencing; WebMessenger.
Employees ~50 (March 2009)
Website www.callwave.com

CallWave, Inc. is an Internet telecommunications company that provides services that help enable mobile, landline and desktop interoperability, for both business and consumer markets.

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History

CallWave was founded by David F. Hofstatter in 1998. The founder of CallWave, Hofstatter secured $30 million in venture funding and then lead the company to profitability in 3 years of operations. In 2004, CallWave achieved approximately $40 million in revenues with $12 million in net earnings. Hofstatter took CallWave public in September of 2004.

CallWave has experienced a steady decline in sales and profits including losses for the years 2006 through 2008. Sales have declined to $20 million with a net loss of $5.6 million in 2008. Yahoo Finance - CallWave

On July 3, 2009, CallWave bought back all public shares and desisted itself from NASDAQ.[1]

Products and services

  • High Definition Audio Conferencing
  • Internet Answering Machine
  • FUZE Meeting
  • WebMessenger

Corporate governance

Board of Directors:

  • Peter Sperling
  • Jeff Cavins
  • Jerry Murdock
  • Jeffrey O. Henley
  • Raj Raithatha
  • Osmo A. Hautanen
  • Manny Rivelo

Top management team:

  • Peter V. Sperling, Chairman and Co-Founder
  • Jeff Cavins, Chief Executive Officer
  • Mark Stubbs, Chief Financial Officer
  • Ritesh Bansal, Vice President of Application Development
  • Michael Buday, Chief Software Architect
  • Karim Toubba, Vice President of Product Management & Strategic Development
  • Kara Parsons, Vice President of Marketing

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CallWave, Inc. develops voicemail services. CallWave was founded in 1998 and its headquarters are in Santa Barbara, California.<ref name=Vtxt>CallWave, Inc. (March 27, 2007). CallWave Introduces Vtxt. Press release.</ref><ref>j2 Global Communications. (March 14, 2007). j2 Global and CallWave Settle Patent Infringement Litigation. Press release.</ref>

CallWave’s service offerings include Visual Voicemail for email, Visual Voicemail widgets, and Visual Fax-to-Email.<ref>Walkley, Michael T. (May 9, 2007), “CallWave, Inc. Company Note, Analyst Report”, Piper Jaffray & Co.</ref> The company also offers text messaging widgets<ref>Cohen, Peter. “CallWave widget offers free text messaging”, Macworld, April 10, 2007.</ref> and Vtxt, a speech recognition technology that transcribes voicemail into a text message that users can read on a mobile phone, in email, or in a permanent, searchable, web-based archive.<ref>Arar, Yardena. “Voice Drives New Mobile Services”, PC World, March 27, 2007.</ref><ref name=Vtxt /> In addition to providing full transcriptions, CallWave is the only company to send a summary of the message as a text message to the user's cell phone. Jamie Lendino at PCMag.com explains that CallWave, "squeezes each message under the 160-character SMS limit using its GIST (General Information on the Subject and Timing) technology to give you the gist rather than the entire text."

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External links

  • CallWave website
  • Deloitte’s Technology Fast 50 Ranking of Fastest Growing Companies
  • [526][PC Mag Vtxt Review]











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