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Valley start-ups Meebo, TokBox offer new ways to link people online with instant messaging and video conferencing

August 13, 2008View for printing

Once upon a technology, Western Union was a communications start-up that became a household name.

Today, Meebo http://www.meebo.com/ and TokBox http://www.tokbox.com/ are two allied Silicon Valley communications start-ups bidding to become household names of the 21st century. Three-year-old Meebo, with headquarters that happen to be next door to a Western Union outpost in Mountain View, pioneered Web-based instant-messaging and boldly bills itself as ''the Web's live communications platform.''

By Scott Duke Harris Mercury News

Full Story: http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_10178765
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