TeleMessage

TeleMessage was founded in 1999 in Tel Aviv, Israel raising more than 10 million dollars in its first 2 series of investment rounds.{{Cite news | title = Globes Article |newspaper = Globes|date = 25 June 2000| url = http://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=250346|last1 = צוקר|first1 = דפנה}} After being acquired by Messaging International plc in August 2005, it then went public and was traded on the London Stock Exchange AIM section under the Messaging International name.{{Cite journal | title = Messaging International PLC acquires Telemessage | url = http://www.iii.co.uk/investment/detail?type=news&code=cotn%3AMES.L&it=&articleid=5420409&format=raw&action=article | journal = Interactive Investor - August 2005}} {{Deadlink|date=May 2025}}

It received conditional funding of up to US$900,000 for a joint research and development project for "Secure Rich Communication Services Messaging" in 2015. The funding was provided by the Israel-US Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation.{{Cite web|url=http://www.morningstar.co.uk/uk/news/AN_1406029321978883900/messaging-international-gets-up-to-usd900000-in-funding.aspx|title=Messaging International Gets Up To USD900,000 In Funding|work=MorningstarUK|access-date=2014-07-22|language=en}}

In 2004, Canadian mobile network operator Rogers Wireless selected TeleMessage SMS to Landline solution, powered by ScanSoft RealSpeak, for its TXT 2 Landline service.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-09-28|title=Rogers Wireless Selects ScanSoft and TeleMessage to Power TXT 2 Landline Service|url=https://www.speechtechmag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=30572|date=1 January 2005|website=Speech Technology Magazine}} American wireless network operator Verizon Wireless started using TeleMessage's SMS service to convert typed text messages into audio messages that play to a recipient's landline phone, launching this service in June 2006.{{cite web | title=Verizon Wireless to Give SMS a Voice 628150|first=Carmen|last=Nobel| website=Light Reading | date=1 June 2006 | url=https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/verizon-wireless-to-give-sms-a-voice-628150}} Rogers Communications and the American telco Sprint Nextel were amongst others to launch the mail plugin.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-10-01|title=Text Messaging Comes to Landlines|url=https://www.pcworld.com/article/149799/texting.html|date=14 August 2008|website=PCWorld}}

In 2013, five years after Comverse launched the TeleMessage PC2Mobile with a Tier-1 European operator, Sprint started selling the TeleMessage offering to allow doctors and clinicians to send HIPAA-compliant texts.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-10-02|title=Sprint Launches Secure Messaging Platforms for Health Care|url=https://www.eweek.com/mobile/sprint-launches-secure-messaging-platforms-for-health-care|website=eWEEK|date=28 June 2013}} Delisted from the British stock exchange and privatized in 2017, it joined the G-Cloud public procurement framework and a financial compliance partner program managed by Verint Systems in the following years.{{cite web|first1=Gyorgy|last1=Gyarmati|accessdate=2020-09-23|title=TeleMessage Joins Verint's Financial Compliance Partner Program |url=https://www.verba.com/telemessage-joins-verint-compliance-partner-program/|date=15 June 2020}}

In 2019, it along with Boku Identity and Deep Labs joined NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-10-01|title=Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem|url=https://www.niceactimize.com/press-releases/Boku-Identity-Deep-Labs-and-TeleMessage-Join-NICE-Actimizes-XSight-Marketplace-the-Industrys-First-Financial-Crime-Management-Ecosystem-304|website=NICE Systems}} In February 2020, Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale based enterprise security company partnered with TeleMessage to use their Mobile Archiver service for capturing text, voice and WhatsApp messages.{{cite web|first1=Raul|last1=Castañon|accessdate=2020-10-01|title=CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February|url=https://medium.com/@rcastanon/cafex-communications-proofpoint-telemessage-staffbase-news-roundup-for-february-9b48a5d7997e|date=25 February 2020|website=Medium}} The company is also working with Microsoft in protecting and governing data that is arriving from other Microsoft 365 services.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-10-01|title=Microsoft 365 gets next generation Compliance Manager and more|url=https://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-365-gets-next-generation-compliance-manager-and-more|website=Neowin}}

On February 20, 2024, the firm was acquired by Smarsh.{{Cite web|url=https://www.smarsh.com/press-release/smarsh-completes-acquisition-of-telemessage-extends-communications-compliance-leadership|title=Smarsh Completes Acquisition of TeleMessage, Extends Communications Compliance Leadership|work=Smarsh|access-date=2024-02-29|language=en}}

In May 2025, TeleMessage gained media attention after it was revealed that Mike Waltz, former U.S. National Security Advisor, was using a modified version of open source software Signal called "TM SGNL", created by TeleMessage to archive messages securely. Use predates the 2024 government; a federal contract starting in February 2023 has been found for 'TeleMessage mobile electronic message archiving'.{{cite news |author1=Kevin Collier |author2=Ben Goggin |title=Photo appears to show Mike Waltz using Signal-like app that can archive messages |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/photo-appears-shows-mike-waltz-using-signal-app-can-archive-messages-rcna204434 |work=NBC News |date=2 May 2025 |language=en |quote=One current contract that mentions TeleMessage allocated $2.1 million from the Department of Homeland Security and FEMA for 'TELEMESSAGE MOBILE ELECTRONIC MESSAGE ARCHIVING,' beginning in February 2023, with an August 2025 end date.}} These discoveries highlighted the company's role in providing modified messaging applications for secure and compliant archival of governmental communications, raising discussions around security and record-keeping practices within high-ranking government circles.{{AI-generated inline|date=May 2025}}{{cite web|first1=Joseph|last1=Cox|date=1 May 2025|title=Mike Waltz Accidentally Reveals Obscure App the Government Is Using to Archive Signal Messages|url=https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/|website=404 Media|access-date=1 May 2025}} It was later reported that TeleMessage had been hacked, and that chat logs archived by TeleMessage's modified Signal application are not end-to-end encrypted, either in transit to their archival storage location or once at rest.{{Cite web |last=Cox |first=Joseph |last2=Lee · |first2=Micah |date=2025-05-04 |title=The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked |url=https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/ |access-date=2025-05-05 |website=404 Media |language=en}}

• Mobile Archiver - addresses mobile phone text and call archiving for compliance, regulatory and eDiscovery response requirements. It reduces risk across a variety of industries, capturing mobile content from BYOD and corporate phones; Enabling the captures and archive of: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, as well as WhatsApp and WeChat chats and calls.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-09-23|title=Overview: TeleMessage's Mobile Archiving Solution|url=https://www.infotech.com/software-reviews/research/overview-telemessage-s-mobile-archiving-solution?format=false|date=15 April 2020|website=www.infotech.com}}{{Cite web|url=https://picante.today/technology/2019/11/04/105536/boku-identity-deep-labs-and-telemessage-join-nice-actimizes-x-sight-marketplace-the-industrys-first-financial-crime-management-ecosystem/|title=Boku Identity, Deep Labs, and TeleMessage Join NICE Actimize's X-Sight Marketplace, the Industry's First Financial Crime Management Ecosystem|work=Picante Today|date=4 November 2019 |access-date=2020-09-23|language=en}}{{cite web|first1=Raul|last1=Castañon|accessdate=2020-09-23|title=CafeX Communications, Proofpoint, TeleMessage, Staffbase: News Roundup for February|url=https://medium.com/@rcastanon/cafex-communications-proofpoint-telemessage-staffbase-news-roundup-for-february-9b48a5d7997e|date=25 February 2020|website=Medium}}
• Secure Enterprise Messaging - enables secure enterprise chat for co-workers by using user-friendly mobile apps and a range of APIs that connect to any operational IT system.
• Mass Messaging - provides tools to deliver multi and omnichannel bulk messaging across: SMS, MMS, Voice calls, Faxes, Email, and Mobile Apps.

• Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system{{citation|title=United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system|url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fsearch-bool.html&r=3&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=telemessage&OS=telemessage&RS=telemessage}}
• Controller for use with communications systems for converting a voice message to a text message{{citation|title=United States Patent: 7103348 - Mobile station (MS) message selection identification system|url=http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%252Fnetahtml%252FPTO%252Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=7,103,348.PN.&OS=PN/7,103,348&RS=PN/7,103,348}}

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