Twilio Rising: Microsoft Inks Deal To Offer Voice, Messaging APIs To ?Tens Of Thousands? Of Azure Developers

A potentially big move forward for cloud-based telephony API startup Twilio -- and an intriguing development for Microsoft, given its would-be ownership of Skype: Twilio and Microsoft have formed a strategic alliance to offer Twilio's APIs to developers on the Windows Azure platform. The offering will cover both Twilio's voice and messaging services, and Twilio is sweetening the deal by giving developers a credit of 1,000 free text messages or inbound voice minutes when they sign up.

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