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Kara Swisher in Mobile on August 15, 2011 at 5:30 am PT

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Exclusive: Tellme Founder and GM McCue Departs, as Microsoft Reorganizes Its Speech Recognition Unit

Kara Swisher in News on May 13, 2009 at 10:20 am PT

After running one of the more successful Silicon Valley acquisitions by Microsoft for several years, Tellme Networks founder and GM Mike McCue will be leaving the company at the end of June. As part of the transition, Zig Serafin, who has been running a lot of the speech technology efforts for the software giant in Redmond, Wash., is taking over the voice services subsidiary and all the other related units and making them into a single team with about 400 employees in total. McCue and Serafin are now meeting with Tellme staff at its Mountain View HQ about the changeover.