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But TokBox decided eight months later that going it alone was not a great idea.
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TokBox got started in 2007 as a destination video chat site funded by Sequoia Capital and others.
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But if they want to make a recording of the OpenTok session, TokBox has announced that it will charge customers for that feature.
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Another paid application Universal Music, a TokBox customer, will pay the company to enable fans to have video sessions with star musicians that 10, 000 other people can watch.
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TokBox is making money using a so-called freemium model.
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According to TechCrunch, buying TokBox added new services that Telefonica could offer developers through its BlueVia Application Programming Interface (API) platform: these already included voice, messaging and billing APIs when the TokBox deal closed.
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On Tuesday, TokBox, which seeks to make it easier for developers to incorporate live group video into their apps, announced that its OpenTok API was leveraging WebRTC both in Chrome 23 and iOS. You can expect a lot more announcements like that to come.
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