Former SpinVox CEO Christina Domecq is back in business, and searching for gold, sort of. She has been named CEO of Phreadz Inc, which, according to corporate databases, is “an exploration-stage corporation” previously in the business of acquiring mining claims and which held a solitary, now-expired right to mine for…

When I spoke with SpinVox buyer Nuance, as it began planning the future for the voicemail-to-text firm last month, it said it would pitch the service harder to network operators, stop offering new direct consumer accounts, but continue to maintain the service for existing subscribers. That latter part now appears…

SpinVox’s CEO Christina Domecq had to pay back £125,000 to the company after an investigation in to her use of corporate finances, according to a detailed 70-page filing made by new owner Nuance to the SEC. The investigation was ordered by SpinVox’s board in July, when, after paidContent:UK lifted the…

Earlier reports had said Burlington, Massachusetts, digital speech company Nuance may buy troubled voicemail-to-text counterpart Spinvox before year’s end - and Nuance on Wednesday confirmed exactly that… The price - $102.5 million - is less than half the more-than-$200 million in investment that Spinvox had raised before things started to…

UK investment manager Invesco Perpetual AiM VCT, which owns a minority stake in troubled voice-to-text firm SpinVox, appears, in its 08/09 earnings, to have inadvertently confirmed rumours that paidContent:UK had received recently - that the company is actually up for sale. Invesco’s market statement: “More disappointingly amongst the unquoted investments,…

Under-fire UK voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which we revealed last week was finalising a new funding injection, has in fact secured those new funds thought to be £5.5 million, as suppliers and staff complain of unpaid bills and expenses. The company told paidContent:UK: “Existing investors from the last round of funding…

Following our recent coverage, controversial voice-to-text firm SpinVox, which has rasied $200 million from Goldman Sachs and other institional investors, has now come under the BBC’s scrutiny for sending voicemails for transcription to contractors in far-flung countries. That’s one of the threads that emerged on the pages or our sister…

The much-talked about voice-to-text firm SpinVox is trying to pay staff in stock instead of salary this summer to save money, we have learned and confirmed - despite getting $100 million funding only last year. The company said: “We are offering all of our employees the opportunity to exchange all,…