Could it be ooVoo or is ooVoo one for the slightly longer term?
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They both use Oovoo, a video chatting service, to help them run their businesses.
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While all of that sounds great, ooVoo, like other fast-growing internet companies, faces a monetization problem.
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Or ooVoo or any number of other video chat apps for the desktop.
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Should I be using video sharing technology like Oovoo (or Skype, or others like it) too?
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Starting today, the free ooVoo updates are available for immediate download from iPhone App Store and Google Play.
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He also uses Oovoo to connect face to face with both current and prospective customers to discuss projects.
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The other important factor for teens like De Luca is that they can use ooVoo without paying anything.
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De Luca uses ooVoo for group study sessions and to demonstrate hair and makeup styles to her friends.
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Rather than making multiple calls, we find people are keeping ooVoo open, as if it were a dorm room.
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Just over half of ooVoo's U.S. subscribers are under 25, Mr. Samit says.
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In 2011, ooVoo logged 10 billion minutes of video usage on its network.
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Oovoo is explosively popular on places like Facebook and Twitter, where teens congregate.
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If video is indeed the next frontier, ooVoo is in the right place.
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The move may help Skype compete against Oovoo, Google Talk and other rivals.
Oovoo has also been analyzing teen usage, particularly the way teens have started to mix their digital and real lives.
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If we need to discuss projects with them face to face we connect using video tools like Skype and Oovoo.
But Kornblad found that ooVoo users were more frequent video callers with 28% of them saying they logged onto the service daily.
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The company estimates that its name is broadcast on Twitter once every two seconds, mostly by teens tweeting incessantly about their ooVoo activity.
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Oovoo does not disclose its financials or the percentage of its users that pay for its service and may not yet be profitable.
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Teen enthusiasm is helping oovoo compete against larger, more established rivals like Skype and the video chat services run by Apple and Google.
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All kidding aside, using a service like Oovoo is stupidly simple.
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And he relies heavily on Oovoo to help him do this.
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OoVoo is still far from a household name but teens like De Luca are making it one of the hottest technologies among the young and connected.
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This month, ooVoo, which has 130 employees, reached 75 million registered users, roughly double the number of registered users it had at this time last year, he says.
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Despite that growth, ooVoo has yet to turn a profit.
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Jackman is confident, though, that ooVoo will be profitable soon.
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Available for PC, Mac and more than 240 iOS and Android mobile devices, ooVoo brings the highest quality experience, more flexibility and a wealth of social features to subscribers for free.
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Jackman sees those changing habits creating opportunities for ooVoo.
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Like many technology entrepreneurs, Jay Samit says he knew ooVoo LLC, a video-chat startup, was poised for growth last year when he heard a group of teenagers use it as a verb.
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