headquarters austin texas key people bill moore ceo alexey gavrilov cto products zello number of employees 14 1 website www.zello.com zello is an application startup located in austin texas behind the creation of zello applications . the applications are push to talk ptt walkie talkie for consumers and business and available for android ios blackberry windows phone windows pc rugged mobile devices and two way radios . zello is free while the zello work application is free for up to 5 users . 1 contents 1 company history 2 products 3 news 4 see also 5 references 6 external links company history edit alexey gavrilov developed the product originally called loudtalks which was announced at the techcrunch 40 mobile and communications conference on september 17 2007 . 2 zello acquired the loudtalks technology rebranded moved the development team to austin added aps and announced june 20 2012 . 3 bill moore is the ceo and gavrilov is cto . moore founded and was ceo of tunein where gavrilov and his team created popular tunein applications . products edit zello acts as a replacement for traditional two way radios offering additional features such as history replay last message notifications and bluetooth device support . it works over 2g 4g 3g and gprs edge networks . 4 zello is a direct messaging service that allows members to communicate freely either privately with individuals or over open channels that can support hundreds of thousands of users said u.s. senator ted cruz . 5 it allows people to use cell phones and computers all around the world like walkie talkies . 6 zello users can create channels and give control to other zello users to become moderators . new york times technology columnist david pogue describes zello s channels like most of the best applications zello lets you create groups so that you can carry on something like a party line phone call among a handful or hundreds of friends or collaborators . 7 once a channel is created channels can appear on the trending list and creators can assign additional moderators to keep their created channels safe . though available for android ios windows phone and blackberry zello can also be accessed from a windows pc computer with the zello for windows pc . 7 news edit zello made the news in june 2013 when turkish protesters used it to circumvent government censors . 8 as a result zello was the top most downloaded application in turkey during the first week of june 2013 . 9 in february 2014 it was blocked by cantv in venezuela . zello issued workarounds and patches to overcome the blocks to support approximately 600 000 venezuelans who have downloaded the application to communicate with each other amidst protests . 10 it has been one of the most downloaded applications in ukraine and venezuela . 11 see also edit freecast software glide software mumble software whatsapp references edit a b zello crunchbase profile . retrieved march 7 2014 . riley d. september 17 2007 . techcrunch 40 session 2 mobile & communications . retrieved march 6 2014 . perez s. june 20 2012 . voice chat app voxer gets new competition from zello . techcrunch . retrieved march 6 2014 . hodgkins k. may 9 2013 . zello lets you chat walkie talkie style with friends co workers . tuaw . retrieved march 6 2014 . cruz t. february 27 2014 . zello and venezuela on c span . c span . retrieved march 6 2014 . february 21 2014 . in venezuela the internet becomes a crucial battleground . nbc news . retrieved march 6 2014 . a b pogue d. september 5 2012 . smartphone presto 2 way radio . the new york times . retrieved march 6 2014 . arthur c. june 4 2013 . turkish protesters using encryption software to evade censors . the guardian . retrieved march 6 2014 . june 2 2013 . zello walkie talkie daily ranks . app annie . retrieved march 6 2014 . zhang s. february 25 2014 . the mobile app driving venezuela s anti government protests . gizmodo . retrieved march 6 2014 . burke s. february 24 2014 . protesters in venezuela ukraine turn to peer to peer messaging app . cnn . retrieved march 6 2014 . external links edit official website german website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title zello & oldid 736101343 categories companies based in austin texaswalkie talkiesprivately held companies based in texastechnology companies established in 20112011 establishments in texassoftware companies based in texashidden categories use mdy dates from may 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages catal espa olhrvatski edit 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