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Wildfire Communications, Inc.
 PROFILE
Look, ma, no hands! Wildfire Communications, sparked in 1991 by founder Bill Warner's need to do business in his car, provides software and systems that incorporate voice recognition technology for hands-free, voice-enabled telecommunications. The company's Wildfire voice-activated virtual personal assistant enables communications service providers to offer such features as voice-activated dialing and message management, automated answering by a virtual assistant, call screening, conference calls, e-mail, and reminders to subscribers. Calls and messages can be delivered to any phone. Wildfire is a subsidiary of Orange plc, the UK arm of French wireless carrier and France Telecom affiliate Orange SA.

 COMPETITION
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 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
1997 Sales (mil.): 10.10
Employees: 125
Revenue per employee: $80,800.00

 KEY PEOPLE
• Melvin T. Laasko
    CEO
• Richard Ford
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
343 Winter St.
Waltham, MA 02451
US
Phone: 781-778-1500
Fax: 781-778-1501
Online: Web Site

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