Go to almost any small business Web site and you will find you can't make a call. A real call where you talk to someone simply by clicking a button.
Infratel hopes to change all that. The Seattle company has received $3 million in funding from Prostor Capital and Runa Capital to provide its cloud-based telephony service for providing click-to-talk capabilities....
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Published By: Techcrunch - Tuesday, 7 August, 2012
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