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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-Q
(Mark One)
     
þ   QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Quarterly Period Ended June 30, 2011
OR
     
o   TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the Transition Period from                    to
Commission file number: 001-33790
SoundBite Communications, Inc.
(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
     
Delaware
(State or Other Jurisdiction of
Incorporation or Organization)
  04-3520763
(I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)
22 Crosby Drive
Bedford, Massachusetts 01730

(Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)
(781) 897-2500
(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days: Yes þ No o
     Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files). Yes þ No o
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     As of July 29, 2011, there were 16,450,944 shares of the registrant’s common stock, $.001 par value per share, outstanding.
 
 

 


 

SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
FORM 10-Q
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.   Financial Statements
SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

(in thousands, except share amounts)
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
    (unaudited)          
Assets
               
Current assets:
               
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 28,342     $ 34,157  
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts of $157 at June 30, 2011 and $197 at December 31, 2010
    7,158       6,577  
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    1,850       1,183  
 
           
Total current assets
    37,350       41,917  
Property and equipment, net
    2,273       2,550  
Intangible assets, net
    2,725       517  
Goodwill
    3,800       762  
Other assets
    165       229  
 
           
Total assets
  $ 46,313     $ 45,975  
 
           
 
               
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 1,187     $ 1,067  
Accrued expenses
    3,451       3,297  
 
           
Total current liabilities
    4,638       4,364  
 
               
Other liabilities
    1,535       421  
 
           
Total liabilities
    6,173       4,785  
 
               
Stockholders’ equity:
               
Common stock, $0.001 par value — 75,000,000 shares authorized; 16,645,809 and 16,576,701 shares issued at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010; 16,450,424 and 16,381,316 shares outstanding at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010
    17       17  
Additional paid-in capital
    70,106       69,454  
Treasury stock, at cost —195,385 shares at June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010
    (132 )     (132 )
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (72 )     (72 )
Accumulated deficit
    (29,779 )     (28,077 )
 
           
Total stockholders’ equity
    40,140       41,190  
 
           
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity
  $ 46,313     $ 45,975  
 
           
See notes to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(Unaudited)

(in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Revenues
  $ 9,552     $ 9,752     $ 18,715     $ 19,624  
Cost of revenues
    4,070       3,931       7,832       7,947  
 
                       
Gross profit
    5,482       5,821       10,883       11,677  
 
                       
Operating expenses:
                               
Research and development
    1,448       1,531       2,994       3,017  
Sales and marketing
    3,388       3,608       6,781       7,297  
General and administrative
    1,778       1,792       3,717       3,540  
 
                       
Total operating expenses
    6,614       6,931       13,492       13,854  
 
                       
Operating loss
    (1,132 )     (1,110 )     (2,609 )     (2,177 )
 
                       
Other (expense) income:
                               
Interest and other (expense) income, net
    (9 )     2       2       4  
 
                       
Loss before income tax benefit
    (1,141 )     (1,108 )     (2,607 )     (2,173 )
Income tax benefit
    905             905        
 
                       
Net loss
  $ (236 )   $ (1,108 )   $ (1,702 )   $ (2,173 )
 
                       
 
                               
Net loss per common share:
                               
Basic and Diluted
  $ (0.01 )   $ (0.07 )   $ (0.10 )   $ (0.13 )
 
                               
Weighted average common shares outstanding:
                               
Basic and Diluted
    16,428,793       16,330,522       16,408,925       16,323,725  
See notes to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(Unaudited)

(in thousands)
                 
    Six Months Ended  
    June 30,  
    2011     2010  
Cash flows from operating activities:
               
Net loss
  $ (1,702 )   $ (2,173 )
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities:
               
Depreciation of property and equipment
    667       993  
Amortization of intangible assets
    150       36  
Provision for doubtful accounts
    40       30  
Stock-based compensation
    609       673  
Deferred taxes
    (905 )      
Gain on disposal of equipment
    (3 )      
Change in operating assets and liabilities, net of effect of acquisition:
               
Accounts receivable
    60       (206 )
Prepaid expenses and other current assets
    (592 )     322  
Other assets
    64       (32 )
Accounts payable
    (134 )     185  
Accrued expenses and other liabilities
    (852 )     118  
 
           
Net cash used in operating activities
    (2,598 )     (54 )
 
           
Cash flows from investing activities:
               
Cash paid related to Mobile Collect acquisition
    (309 )     (228 )
Cash paid related to SmartReply acquisition
    (2,559 )      
Investment in capitalized software
          (297 )
Proceeds from sale of equipment
    3        
Purchases of property and equipment
    (395 )     (621 )
 
           
Net cash used in investing activities
    (3,260 )     (1,146 )
 
           
Cash flows from financing activities:
               
Proceeds from exercise of stock options
    43       73  
 
           
Net cash provided by financing activities
    43       73  
 
           
Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents
    (5,815 )     (1,127 )
Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period
    34,157       36,322  
 
           
Cash and cash equivalents, end of period
  $ 28,342     $ 35,195  
 
           
 
               
Supplemental disclosure of non-cash investing activities:
               
Property and equipment, included in accounts payable
  $ 118     $ 294  
 
           
Contingent cash payment to Mobile Collect, included in accrued expenses
  $ 166     $ 116  
 
           
Contingent consideration and consideration payable, included in accrued expenses and other liabilities
  $ 1,749     $  
 
           
See notes to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements.

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SOUNDBITE COMMUNICATIONS, INC. AND SUBSIDIARIES
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(Unaudited)
1. NATURE OF BUSINESS
SoundBite Communications, Inc. (the Company) provides a cloud-based, multi-channel proactive customer communications service that enables organizations to design, execute and measure communication campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payment and collection processes. Clients use the SoundBite Engage platform to communicate with their customers through automated voice messaging, predictive dialing, text and email messages. The Company was incorporated in Delaware in 2000 and its principal operations are located in Bedford, Massachusetts. The Company’s clients are located principally in the United States, with a limited number located in Europe.
2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION
The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial information. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by generally accepted accounting principles for complete financial statements. In the opinion of management, the unaudited interim financial statements include all adjustments, consisting of normal and recurring adjustments, necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s financial position as of June 30, 2011 and its results of operations for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 and its cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010. The results for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 2011. The Company considers events or transactions that occur after the balance sheet date but before the financial statements are issued to provide additional evidence relative to certain estimates or to identify matters that require additional disclosure. Subsequent events have been evaluated through the date of issuance of these financial statements. No subsequent events requiring adjustment or disclosure were identified. These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the audited annual financial statements and notes thereto as of and for the year ended December 31, 2010 included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC.
3. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
     Revenues
The Company derives substantially all of its revenues by providing its services for use by clients in communicating with their customers through voice, text and email messages. The Company provides its services under a usage-based pricing model, with prices calculated on a per-message or per-minute basis in accordance with the terms of its pricing agreements with clients. The Company primarily invoices its clients on a monthly basis. Its pricing agreements with many clients do not require minimum levels of usage or payments.
The Company recognizes revenue when all of the following conditions are satisfied: (1) there is persuasive evidence of an arrangement; (2) the service has been provided to the client; (3) the amount of fees to be paid by the client is fixed or determinable; and (4) the collection of fees from the client is reasonably assured. Generally, this is when the services are performed.
The Company’s client management organization provides ancillary services to assist clients in selecting service features and adopting best practices that help clients make the best use of the Company’s on-demand service. The organization provides varying levels of support through these ancillary services, from managing an entire campaign to supporting self-service clients. In some cases, ancillary services may be billed to clients based upon a fixed fee or, more typically, a fixed hourly rate. These billed services typically are of short duration, typically less than one month. The billed services do not involve future obligations. The Company recognizes revenue from these billed services within the calendar month in which the ancillary services are completed if the four criteria set forth above are satisfied. Revenues attributable to ancillary services are not material and accordingly were not presented as a separate line item in the statements of operations.
     Basic and Diluted Loss per Common Share
Net loss per common share attributable to common stockholders has been computed using the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during each period. Basic and diluted shares outstanding were the same for the periods presented as the impact of all potentially dilutive securities outstanding was anti dilutive. The following table presents the potentially dilutive securities outstanding that were excluded from the computation of diluted net loss per common share because their inclusion would have had an anti dilutive effect:

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    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Stock options
    3,338,394       3,316,639       3,338,394       3,363,851  
Restricted stock
    60,759       78,950       60,759       78,950  
Warrants
          14,487             14,487  
 
                       
Total
    3,399,153       3,410,076       3,399,153       3,457,288  
 
                       
     Comprehensive Loss
For the three and six months ending June 30, 2011, comprehensive loss was equal to net loss.
     Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In October 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued guidance to amend the accounting and disclosure requirements for revenue recognition. The Company adopted the amendments beginning January 1, 2011. The new guidance modifies the criteria for the separation of deliverables into units of accounting for multiple element arrangements. The adoption of this new guidance did not have an impact on the Company’s financial statements.
4. ACCRUED EXPENSES
     Accrued expenses consisted of the following (in thousands):
                 
    June 30,     December 31,  
    2011     2010  
Accrued payroll related items
  $ 1,068     $ 946  
Accrued telephony
    700       632  
Accrued professional fees
    406       362  
Accrued other
    1,277       1,357  
 
           
Total
  $ 3,451     $ 3,297  
 
           
5. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
The following table presents stock-based compensation expense included in the condensed consolidated statements of operations (in thousands):
                                 
    Three Months Ended     Six Months Ended  
    June 30,     June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Cost of revenues
  $ 11     $ 11     $ 21     $ 20  
Research and development
    52       85       106       116  
Sales and marketing
    113       102       229       232  
General and administrative
    124       146       253       305  
 
                       
Total stock-based compensation
  $ 300     $ 344     $ 609     $ 673  
 
                       
As of June 30, 2011, the total compensation cost related to stock-based awards granted to employees and directors but not yet recognized was $1.5 million, net of estimated forfeitures. These costs will be amortized on a straight-line basis over a weighted average period of 2.1 years.
6. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLES
On February 26, 2008, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Mobile Collect, Inc. (Mobile Collect). Mobile Collect was a privately held company that provided text messaging and mobile communications solutions. The Company acquired these assets with the goal of supplementing the Company’s service capabilities to include Free-To-End-User text messaging. The acquisition included cash payments of $500,000 upon closing and contingent cash payments of up to $2 million payable through 2013 upon Mobile Collect achieving certain established financial targets. During the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, the Company recorded $166,000 and $312,000 of contingent consideration, respectively, and increased the carrying value of goodwill. As of June

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30, 2011, the Company had remaining contingent consideration related to this acquisition of up to approximately $700,000, which will be recognized as additions to goodwill and subject to future impairment considerations. The results of operations of Mobile Collect have been included in the accompanying financial statements from the date of the acquisition.
On June 7, 2011, the Company acquired key assets and assumed certain liabilities of SmartReply, Inc, (SmartReply). See Note 8 below for details of the transaction.
The change in the carrying amount of goodwill during the six-month period ended June 30, 2011, which is subject to future impairment considerations, is as follows (in thousands):
         
Balance at January 1, 2011
  $ 762  
Mobile Collect contingent payments
    312  
SmartReply acquisition (Note 8)
    2,726  
 
     
Balance at June 30, 2011
  $ 3,800  
 
     
7. FAIR VALUE
The fair value hierarchy requires an entity to maximize the use of observable inputs and minimize the use of unobservable inputs when measuring fair value. Observable inputs are obtained from independent sources and can be validated by a third party, whereas unobservable inputs reflect assumptions regarding what a third party would use in pricing an asset or liability. The fair value hierarchy is based upon the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. There are three levels of inputs that may be used to measure fair value as follows:
     Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities
     Level 2—Other inputs that are directly or indirectly observable in the marketplace
     Level 3—Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity
The carrying value of the Company’s financial instruments, including cash, accounts receivable and accounts payable, approximate their fair value because of their short-term nature. The Company measures cash equivalents, comprised of money market fund deposits, and a contingent liability at fair value. At June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010, the money market funds were valued based on quoted prices for the specific securities in an active market and therefore classified as Level 1. The Level 3 liability consists of contingent consideration related to the SmartReply acquisition in the form of an earn-out for a maximum of $8.9 million paid out annually over the next three years based upon year-over-year revenue growth relative to the Company’s mobile services business. The fair value of the contingent consideration was estimated by applying the income approach. The measure is based on significant inputs that are unobservable in the market. Key assumptions include a discount rate of 18.5% and probability weighted estimates of future revenues of the acquired business.
Assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis consisted of the following types of instruments as of June 30, 2011 and December 31, 2010 (in thousands):
                                 
    Fair Value Measurements at Reporting Date Using
    Quoted Prices in   Significant        
    Active Markets for   Other   Significant    
    Identical   Observable   Unobservable    
    Instruments   Inputs   Inputs    
    (Level 1)   (Level 2)   (Level 3)   Total Balance
     
Assets
                               
Cash equivalents:
                               
Money market fund deposits at June 30, 2011
  $ 27,238                 $ 27,238  
Money market fund deposits at December 31, 2010
  $ 33,134                 $ 33,134  
 
                               
Liabilities
                               
Accrued Expenses:
                               
Liability for contingent consideration at June 30, 2011
              $ 1,158     $ 1,158  
Liability for contingent consideration at December 31, 2010
                       
There was no change in the liability for contingent consideration in the period due to the short passage of time since the recording of the liability in purchase accounting.

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8. ACQUISITION
On June 7, 2011, the Company acquired key assets and assumed certain liabilities of SmartReply, a mobile marketing company located in Irvine, California, through a series of transactions in which, among other things, SmartReply contributed the targeted assets and liabilities to its newly formed subsidiary and the Company subsequently acquired all of the capital stock of that newly formed entity. SmartReply had been delivering mobile marketing solutions to approximately 40 companies, including many of the top retail brands in North America. Revenue generated from the SmartReply acquisition for the three month period ending June 30, 2011 was $302,000 and operating loss was $112,000.
The acquisition included cash payments of $2.6 million upon closing with the remaining $591,000 paid in the third quarter of 2011. Approximately $1.0 million of the purchase price has been placed into escrow to secure the sellers’ representations and indemnifications and is expected to be distributed to the selling shareholders over the next 24 months. Contingent consideration in the form of an earn-out, for a maximum of $8.9 million, will be paid annually over the next three years based upon year-over-year revenue growth relative to the Company’s mobile services business. Transaction costs related to the SmartReply acquisition totaled $550,000 and have been reported in the Consolidated Statement of Operations within general and administrative expenses. The acquisition has been accounted for under the purchase method of accounting and accordingly, the results of operations of SmartReply have been included in the accompanying financial statements in the periods following the date of acquisition. The Company recorded deferred tax liabilities of $905,000, primarily related to the intangible assets acquired with SmartReply, and released a corresponding amount of its deferred tax asset valuation allowance. The $905,000 release of the valuation allowance was recognized as a benefit for income taxes during the three months ending June 30, 2011. Pro forma results of SmartReply’s operations have not been presented because the effect of this acquisition was not material to the Consolidated Statement of Operations.
The purchase price has been allocated to the assets acquired and liabilities assumed based on fair value, with any excess recorded as goodwill. The components of the purchase price allocation are as follows (in thousands):
         
Purchase Price:
       
Cash paid at closing
  $ 2,559  
Remaining cash due
    591  
Contingent consideration
    1,158  
 
     
Total
  $ 4,308  
 
     
 
       
Allocations:
       
Current assets
  $ 756  
Property and equipment
    50  
Intangible assets:
       
Customer relationships
    2,330  
Trade name
    28  
Deferred tax liability
    (905 )
Goodwill
    2,726  
 
     
Total assets acquired
    4,985  
Current liabilities assumed
    (677 )
 
     
Total net assets acquired
  $ 4,308  
 
     
     The Company is amortizing its identifiable intangible assets acquired in connection with the SmartReply transaction over their estimated useful lives of two to three years using methods that most closely relate to the depletion of these assets. Estimated annual amortization expense for the next five years related to the intangible assets is as follows (in thousands):
         
Year ending      
December 31,   Amount  
2011
  $ 688  
2012
    907  
2013
    569  
2014
    194  
2015
     
 
     
Total
  $ 2,358  
 
     
The Company has historically managed and presented its operations as a single reporting segment. As a result of the above transaction, management is considering modifications to the management structure and internal reporting to align with the integration of the new business. For the quarter ended June 30, 2011, the Company has reported its business as a single reporting segment, as the

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Company’s chief decision maker, who is the Chief Executive Officer, only evaluated the Company on a consolidated basis through June 30, 2011. As the management structure and internal reporting structure are refined, the Company may re-assess its reporting segments.
Item 2.   Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Investors should read the following discussion in conjunction with our financial statements and related notes appearing elsewhere in this report. In addition to historical information, this discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our expectations. Factors that could cause differences from our expectations include those described in Part II, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” below and elsewhere in this report.
Overview
We provide a cloud-based, multi-channel proactive customer communications, or PCC, service that enables organizations to design, execute and measure communication campaigns for a variety of marketing, customer care, payment and collection processes. Clients use our SoundBite Engage platform to communicate with their customers through automated voice messaging or AVM, predictive dialing, text and email messages that are relevant, timely, personalized and engaging.
Our strategy for achieving long-term, sustained growth in our revenues and net income is focused on building upon our leadership position in the proactive customer communications solutions market and executing on our key initiatives. For example, one of our strategic initiatives is targeted on the high growth area of mobile marketing, which leverages our text capabilities. In line with this strategy, in June 2011 we acquired key assets and assumed certain liabilities of SmartReply, a mobile marketing company located in Irvine, California. Post acquisition revenue and operating loss associated with SmartReply for the three month period ending June 30, 2011 was $302,000 and $112,000, respectively.
Our service is provided using a multi-tenant, cloud architecture that enables a single platform to serve all of our clients cost-effectively. Our cloud architecture delivers our service on an on-demand, or software-as-a-service or SaaS, basis over the internet, eliminating the need for an organization to invest in or maintain new hardware or to hire and manage dedicated information technology staff. In addition, we are able to implement new features on our platform that become part of our service automatically and can benefit all clients immediately. Our secure platform is designed to serve increasing numbers of clients and growing demand from existing clients, enabling the platform to scale reliably and cost-effectively.
Key Components of Results of Operations
     Revenues
We currently derive substantially all of our revenues by providing our service for use by clients in communicating with their customers through voice, text and email messages. We provide our service under a usage-based pricing model, with prices calculated on a per-message or per-minute basis in accordance with the terms of our pricing agreements with clients. We primarily invoice our clients on a monthly basis.
Our pricing agreements with many of our clients do not require minimum levels of usage or payments. Each executed message represents a transaction from which we derive revenues, and we therefore recognize revenue based on actual usage within a calendar month. We do not recognize revenue until we can determine that persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, delivery has occurred, the fee is fixed or determinable and we deem collection to be probable.
     Cost of Revenues
Cost of revenues consists primarily of telephony charges, as well as depreciation expenses for our telephony infrastructure and expenses related to hosting and providing support for our platform. Cost of revenues also includes compensation expense for our operations personnel. As we continue to grow our business and add features to our platform, we expect cost of revenues will continue to increase on an absolute dollar basis. Our annual gross margin ranged from 59.6% to 61.4% during the last three fiscal years. We currently are targeting a quarterly gross margin of 58% to 60% for the foreseeable future. Our gross margin for a quarter may vary significantly from our target range for a number of reasons, including the mix of types of messaging campaigns executed during the quarter, as well as the extent to which we build our infrastructure through, for example, significant acquisitions of hardware or material increases in leased data center facilities.

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     Operating Expenses
Research and Development. Research and development expenses consist primarily of compensation expenses and depreciation expense of certain equipment related to the development of our service. We have historically focused our research and development efforts on improving and enhancing our platform, as well as developing new features and offerings.
Sales and Marketing. Sales and marketing expenses consist primarily of compensation for our sales and marketing personnel, including sales commissions, as well as the costs of our marketing programs. We expect to further invest in developing our marketing strategy and activities to extend brand awareness and generate additional leads for our sales staff.
General and Administrative. General and administrative expenses consist of compensation expenses for executive, finance, accounting, administrative and management information systems personnel, accounting and legal professional fees and other corporate expenses.
Recent Cost Saving Activities. In early May 2011, we eliminated two research and development positions, five sales and marketing positions, and one general and administrative position in order to lower our cost of operations. In addition to these reductions, we also reduced the use of external contracting resources. Compensation expense was unaffected by this action in the second quarter of 2011, however, as termination costs offset the cost savings resulting from the reduction in headcount.
SmartReply Acquisition. As a result of the SmartReply acquisition on June 7, 2011, we incurred an additional $223,000 in operating expenses, excluding any costs related to the purchase price, in the second quarter of 2011. We anticipate these operating expenses to increase to approximately $900,000 per quarter for the second half of the year.
Additional Key Measures of Financial Performance
We present information below with respect to cash flow from operating activities and free cash flow. Free cash flow is a measure of financial performance calculated as cash flow from operating activities, less payments of contingent purchase price and purchases of property and equipment.
Management uses these metrics to track business performance. Due to the current economic environment, management decisions are based in part, on a goal of maintaining positive cash flow from operating activities and free cash flow. We believe these metrics are useful measures of the performance of our business because, in contrast to statement of operations metrics that rely principally on revenue and profitability, cash flow from operating activities and free cash flow capture the changes in operating assets and liabilities during the year and the effect of noncash items such as depreciation and stock-based compensation. We believe that, for similar reasons, these metrics are often used by security analysts, investors and other interested parties in the evaluation of on-demand and other software companies.
The term “free cash flow” is not defined under U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, and is not a measure of operating income, operating performance or liquidity presented in accordance with GAAP. All or a portion of free cash flow may be unavailable for discretionary expenditures. Free cash flow has limitations as an analytical tool and when assessing our operating performance, you should not consider free cash flow in isolation from or as a substitute for data, such as net income (loss), derived from financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,  
    2011     2010  
    (in thousands)  
Cash used in operating activities
  $ (2,598 )   $ (54 )
Contingent purchase price payments to Mobile Collect
    (309 )     (116 )
Purchases of property and equipment
    (395 )     (621 )
 
           
Free cash flow (non-GAAP)
  $ (3,302 )   $ (791 )
 
           
Our operating activities used net cash in the amount of $2.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2011 reflecting a net loss of $1.7 million and non-cash charges and changes in working capital of $900,000 consisting primarily of (a) an increase in accrued expenses and accounts payable of $986,000 due to the timing of payments, (b) an increase in prepaid expenses of $592,000, and (c) an income tax benefit of $905,000, partially offset by (d) depreciation and amortization expense of $817,000 and (e) stock-based compensation expense of $609,000.
Free cash flow in each of the six-month periods presented reflects, in addition to the factors driving cash flow from operating activities, our purchases of property and equipment, which consists primarily of computer equipment and software, and our payments of contingent purchase price in connection with our acquisition of the assets of Mobile Collect in 2008. Our contingent purchase price obligations to Mobile Collect extend through 2013.

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Results of Operations
The following table sets forth selected statements of operations data for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010 indicated as percentages of revenues.
                                 
    Three Months Ended June 30,     Six Months Ended June 30,  
    2011     2010     2011     2010  
Statement of Operations Data:
                               
Revenues
    100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %
Cost of revenues
    42.6       40.3       41.8       40.5  
 
                       
Gross margin
    57.4       59.7       58.2       59.5  
 
                       
Operating expenses:
                               
Research and development
    15.2       15.7       16.0       15.4  
Sales and marketing
    35.5       37.0       36.2       37.2  
General and administrative
    18.6       18.4       19.9       18.0  
 
                       
Total operating expenses
    69.3       71.1       72.1       70.6  
 
                       
Operating loss
    (11.9 )     (11.4 )     (13.9 )     (11.1 )
Interest and other (expense) income
    0.0       0.0       0.0       0.0  
 
                       
Loss before income tax benefit
    (11.9 )     (11.4 )     (13.9 )     (11.1 )
Income tax benefit
    9.4       0.0       4.8       0.0  
 
                       
Net loss
    (2.5 )%     (11.4 )%     (9.1 )%     (11.1 )%
 
                       
     Comparison of Three Months Ended June 30, 2011 and 2010
Revenues
                                                 
    Three Months Ended June 30,   Quarter-to-
    2011   2010   Quarter Change
            Percentage of           Percentage of           Percentage
    Amount   Revenues   Amount   Revenues   Amount   Change
    (dollars in thousands)
Revenues
  $ 9,552       100.0 %   $ 9,752       100.0 %   $ (200 )     (2.1 )%
The $200,000 decrease in revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 was mainly due to lower calling volume in the collections vertical market. Revenues from clients in which we derived revenue in both periods decreased $640,000, which was partially offset by revenues from new clients, including those from SmartReply, of $440,000.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Profit
                                                 
    Three Months Ended June 30,   Quarter-to-
    2011   2010   Quarter Change
            Percentage of           Percentage of           Percentage
    Amount   Revenues   Amount   Revenues   Amount   Change
    (dollars in thousands)
Cost of revenues
  $ 4,070       42.6 %   $ 3,931       40.3 %   $ 139       3.5 %
Gross profit
    5,482       57.4       5,821       59.7       (339 )     (5.8 )
The $139,000 increase in cost of revenues for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected a $111,000 increase in telephony expense mainly due to higher delivery costs, a $50,000 increase in co-location costs due to the opening of a data center in the United Kingdom in the fourth quarter of 2010, a $42,000 increase in amortization expense due to our internal use software, and a $33,000 increase in text and email costs. These increases were partially offset by a $104,000 decrease in depreciation expense due to a lower depreciable base of our property and equipment infrastructure. The decrease in gross margin for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected lower price structure agreements entered into with some of our clients, as well as the vertical market and services mix.

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Operating Expenses
                                                 
    Three Months Ended June 30,     Quarter-to-  
    2011     2010     Quarter Change  
            Percentage of             Percentage of             Percentage  
    Amount     Revenues     Amount     Revenues     Amount     Change  
    (dollars in thousands)  
Research and development
  $ 1,448       15.2 %   $ 1,531       15.7 %   $ (83 )     (5.4 )%
Sales and marketing
    3,388       35.5       3,608       37.0       (220 )     (6.1 )
General and administrative
    1,778       18.6       1,792       18.4       (14 )     (0.8 )
 
                                     
Total operating expenses
  $ 6,614       69.3 %   $ 6,931       71.1 %   $ (317 )     (4.6 )%
 
                                     
Research and Development. The $83,000 decrease in research and development expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 was primarily attributable to an $87,000 decrease in personnel related costs.
Sales and Marketing. The $220,000 decrease in sales and marketing expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted primarily from a $158,000 decrease in personnel related costs and a $46,000 decrease in travel and entertainment costs.
General and Administrative. The $14,000 decrease in general and administrative expenses for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected an $114,000 decrease in personnel, travel and entertainment, and other administrative costs, as well as a $36,000 decrease in depreciation expense. These decreases were partially offset by a $146,000 increase in professional service costs, a majority of which related to merger and acquisition activities.
Operating Loss and Other (Expense) Income
                                                 
    Three Months Ended June 30,     Quarter-to-  
    2011     2010     Quarter Change  
            Percentage of             Percentage of             Percentage  
    Amount     Revenues     Amount     Revenues     Amount     Change  
    (dollars in thousands)  
Operating loss
  $ (1,132 )     (11.9 )%   $ (1,110 )     (11.4 )%   $ (22 )     (2.0 )%
Interest and other (expense) income
    (9 )     0.0       2       0.0       (11 )     (550.0 )
 
                                     
Loss before income tax benefit
  $ (1,141 )     (11.9 )%   $ (1,108 )     (11.4 )%   $ (33 )     (3.0 )%
 
                                     
The $11,000 decrease in interest and other (expense) income for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted primarily from a foreign currency loss resulting from the revaluation of accounts receivable and accounts payable balances denominated in foreign currency.
Income Tax Benefit
The $905,000 increase in income tax benefit for the three months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted from the release of valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets primarily due to the recognition of deferred tax liabilities related to the acquisition of intangibles from SmartReply in June 2011.
     Comparison of Six Months Ended June 30, 2011 and 2010
Revenues
                                                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,   Six Month
    2011   2010   Period Change
            Percentage of           Percentage of           Percentage
    Amount   Revenues   Amount   Revenues   Amount   Change
    (dollars in thousands)
Revenues
  $ 18,715       100.0 %   $ 19,624       100.0 %   $ (909 )     (4.6 )%

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The $909,000 decrease in revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 was mainly due to lower calling volume in the collections vertical market. Revenues from clients in which we derived revenue in both periods decreased $1.4 million, which was partially offset by revenues from new clients, including those from SmartReply, of $515,000.
Cost of Revenues and Gross Profit
                                                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,   Six Month
    2011   2010   Period Change
            Percentage of           Percentage of           Percentage
    Amount   Revenues   Amount   Revenues   Amount   Change
    (dollars in thousands)  
Cost of revenues
  $ 7,832       41.8 %   $ 7,947       40.5 %   $ (115 )     (1.4 )%
Gross profit
    10,883       58.2       11,677       59.5       (794 )     (6.8 )
The $115,000 decrease in cost of revenues for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected a $261,000 decrease in depreciation expense due to a lower depreciable base of our property and equipment infrastructure, as well as a $139,000 decrease in telephony expense due to lower client usage. These decreases were partially offset by increased telephony expense of $214,000 primarily due to higher delivery costs, and a $94,000 increase in co-location costs due to the opening of a datacenter in the United Kingdom in the fourth quarter of 2010. The decrease in gross margin for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected lower price structure agreements entered into with some of our clients, as well as the industry and service mix.
Operating Expenses
                                                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,     Six Month-  
    2011     2010     Period Change  
            Percentage of             Percentage of             Percentage  
    Amount     Revenues     Amount     Revenues     Amount     Change  
    (dollars in thousands)  
Research and development
  $ 2,994       16.0 %   $ 3,017       15.4 %   $ (23 )     (0.8 )%
Sales and marketing
    6,781       36.2       7,297       37.2       (516 )     (7.1 )
General and administrative
    3,717       19.9       3,540       18.0       177       5.0  
 
                                     
Total operating expenses
  $ 13,492       72.1 %   $ 13,854       70.6 %   $ (362 )     (2.6 )%
 
                                     
Research and Development. The $23,000 decrease in research and development expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 was primarily attributable to a $97,000 decrease in personnel related costs and a $21,000 decrease in travel and entertainment costs, partially offset by a $92,000 increase in consulting services.
Sales and Marketing. The $516,000 decrease in sales and marketing expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted primarily from a $296,000 decrease in personnel related costs, a $163,000 decrease in marketing costs, and a $98,000 decrease in travel and entertainment costs.
General and Administrative. The $177,000 increase in general and administrative expenses for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 reflected a $449,000 increase in professional service costs, a majority of which related to merger and acquisition activities. This was partially offset by a $187,000 decrease in personnel and travel and entertainment costs, as well as a $64,000 decrease in depreciation expense.
Operating Loss and Other Income
                                                 
    Six Months Ended June 30,     Six Month  
    2011     2010     Period Change  
            Percentage of             Percentage of             Percentage  
    Amount     Revenues     Amount     Revenues     Amount     Change  
    (dollars in thousands)  
Operating loss
  $ (2,609 )     (13.9 )%   $ (2,177 )     (11.1 )%   $ (432 )     (19.8 )%
Interest and other income
    2       0.0       4       0.0       (2 )     (50.0 )
 
                                     
Net loss
  $ (2,607 )     (13.9 )%   $ (2,173 )     (11.1 )%   $ (434 )     (20.0 )%
 
                                     
The $2,000 decrease in interest and other income for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted primarily from a foreign currency loss resulting from the revaluation of accounts receivable and accounts payable balances denominated in foreign currency.

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Income Tax Benefit
The $905,000 increase in income tax benefit for the six months ended June 30, 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010 resulted from the release of valuation allowance against our deferred tax assets primarily due to the recognition of deferred tax liabilities related to the acquisition of intangibles from SmartReply in June 2011.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
     Resources
Since our inception, we have funded our operations primarily with proceeds from private placements of preferred stock and our initial public offering of common stock, borrowings under credit facilities and, more recently, cash flow from operations.
We believe our existing cash and cash equivalents, our projected cash flow from operating activities, and our borrowings available under our existing credit facility will be sufficient to meet our anticipated cash needs for at least the next twelve months. Our future working capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the rates of our revenue growth, our introduction of new features for our on-demand service, and our expansion of research and development and sales and marketing activities. To the extent our cash and cash equivalents and cash flow from operating activities are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through bank credit arrangements or public or private equity or debt financings. We also may need to raise additional funds in the event we determine in the future to effect one or more acquisitions of businesses, technologies and products. If additional funding is required, we may not be able to obtain bank credit arrangements or to effect an equity or debt financing on terms acceptable to us or at all.
     Credit Facility Borrowings
On February 18, 2011 we renewed a credit facility with Silicon Valley Bank that provides a working capital line of credit at an interest rate of 4.5% per annum for up to the lesser of (a) $1.5 million or (b) 80% of eligible accounts receivable, subject to specified adjustments. Accounts receivable serve as collateral for any borrowings under the credit facility. There are certain financial covenant requirements as part of the facility, including an adjusted quick ratio and certain minimum quarterly revenue requirements, none of which are restrictive to our overall operations. The credit facility will expire by its terms on February 18, 2013 and any amounts outstanding must be repaid on that date.
As of June 30, 2011, no amounts were outstanding under the existing credit agreement. As of June 30, 2011, letters of credit totaling $426,000 had been issued in connection with our facility leases.
     Operating Cash Flow
For a discussion of our cash flow from operating activities, see “— Additional Key Measures of Financial Performance.”
     Working Capital
The following table sets forth selected working capital information:
                 
    June 30,   December 31,
    2011   2010
    (In thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 28,342     $ 34,157  
Accounts receivable, net of allowance for doubtful accounts
    7,158       6,577  
Working capital
    32,712       37,553  
Our cash and cash equivalents at June 30, 2011 were unrestricted and held for working capital purposes. These funds were invested primarily in money market funds. We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes.
Our accounts receivable balance fluctuates from period to period, which affects our cash flow from operating activities. Fluctuations vary depending on cash collections, client mix and the volume of monthly usage of our services.

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     Requirements
     Capital Expenditures
In recent years, we have made capital expenditures primarily to acquire computer hardware and software and, to a lesser extent, furniture and leasehold improvements to support the growth of our business. Our capital expenditures totaled $395,000 for the six months ended June 30, 2011. We intend to continue to invest in our infrastructure in an effort to ensure our continued ability to enhance our platform, introduce new features and maintain the reliability of our network. We also intend to continue to make investments in our computer equipment and systems. We expect our capital expenditures for these purposes will approximate $600,000 for the last six months of 2011.
     Stock Repurchase Program
On March 26, 2010, we announced that the board of directors had authorized the repurchase of up to $2.5 million of common stock from time to time on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions. We will determine the timing and amount of any shares repurchased based on an evaluation of market conditions and other factors. Repurchases may be made under a Rule 10b5-1 plan, which would permit shares to be repurchased when we might otherwise be precluded from doing so under insider trading laws. The repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.
As of June 30, 2011, there had been no repurchases of our common stock under the program.
     Contractual Obligations and Requirements
On February 26, 2008, we acquired substantially all of the assets of Mobile Collect, Inc., a privately held company that provided text messaging and mobile communications solutions. The acquisition included cash payments of $500,000 upon closing and requires contingent cash payments of up to $2 million payable through 2013 in the event that certain established financial targets are satisfied through the operation of the acquired assets. As of June 30, 2011, $166,000 of contingent cash payments were payable to the stockholders of Mobile Collect and contingent cash payments of up to $700,000 on future payments, if any, are due quarterly.
On June 7, 2011, we acquired key assets and assumed certain liabilities of SmartReply, a mobile marketing company located in Irvine, California. The acquisition included cash payments of $3.2 million and requires contingent cash payments estimated at $1.7 million, but up to a maximum of $8.9 million, in the form of an earn-out, which will be paid annually over the next three years based upon year-over-year revenue growth relative to our mobile services business.
Except for the contingent cash payments that may be required in connection with the Mobile Collect and SmartReply acquisitions, our contractual obligations have remained substantially unchanged from those reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.
     Off-Balance-Sheet Arrangements
As of June 30, 2011, we did not have any significant off-balance-sheet arrangements, as defined in Item 303(a)(4)(ii) of Regulation S-K of the SEC.
Critical Accounting Policies
We prepare our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. The preparation of these financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets, liabilities, revenues, costs and expenses and related disclosures. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions. Our actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions. We reaffirm the critical accounting policies and estimates as reported in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2010.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
In October 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued guidance to amend the accounting and disclosure requirements for revenue recognition. We adopted the amendments beginning January 1, 2011. The new guidance modifies the criteria for the separation of deliverables into units of accounting for multiple element arrangements. The adoption of this new guidance did not have a material impact on our financial statements.

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Item 3.   Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily the result of fluctuations in interest rates. We do not hold or issue financial instruments for trading purposes.
At June 30, 2011, we had unrestricted cash and cash equivalents totaling $28.3 million. These amounts were invested primarily in money market funds. The unrestricted cash and cash equivalents were held for working capital purposes. Due to the short-term nature of these investments, we believe that we do not have any material exposure to changes in the fair value of our investment portfolio as a result of changes in interest rates. Declines in interest rates, however, would reduce future investment income.
Item 4.   Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our chief executive officer and chief financial officer, evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2011. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, or the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2011, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.
Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within the company have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people, or by management override of the control. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions. Over time, control may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost-effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
No change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) occurred during the three months ended June 30, 2011 that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1A.   Risk Factors
An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. Investors should consider carefully the risks and uncertainties described below and all of the other information contained in this report before deciding whether to purchase our common stock. The market price of our common stock could decline due to any of these risks and uncertainties, and investors might lose all or part of their investments in our common stock.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
If the market for proactive customer communications, or PCC, solutions does not develop as we anticipate, our revenues would decline or fail to grow and we could incur operating losses.
Our revenues totaled $18.7 million in the first six months of 2011, $39.5 million in 2010, $40.2 million in 2009 and $43.2 million in 2008. We derive, and expect to continue to derive for the foreseeable future, a substantial majority of our revenues by providing our on-demand PCC service to businesses and other organizations. Since mid-2008, we have generated an increasing percentage of our revenues from use of our service for text messaging. We expect that, in the future, a growing percentage of our revenues will result from the use of our on-demand service for text, e-mail messaging and our hosted predictive dialer offering. Due to advances in technology, the market for PCC products and services continues to evolve, and it is uncertain whether our service will achieve and

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sustain high levels of demand and market acceptance. In order to succeed, we must increase the usage of our service by existing clients.
In addition, our success will depend on our ability to market our full range of PCC applications to additional organizations. Some organizations may be reluctant or unwilling to use PCC services for a number of reasons, including the perceived effectiveness of communications services based on other delivery channels, such as direct mail and web, or other technologies, such as interactive voice response systems and on-premise predictive dialers. In addition, organizations may lack knowledge about the potential benefits that PCC services can provide. An organization may determine that it can achieve the same, or a higher, level of performance and results from services based on other delivery channels or technologies. Even if an organization determines that our PCC service offers benefits superior to other customer communications products and services, it might not use our service because it has previously invested in alternative products or services or in internally developed messaging equipment, because it can obtain acceptable performance and results from alternative products and services available at a lower cost, or because it is unwilling to deliver customer information to a third-party vendor. Moreover, an organization may determine not to use communications products and services due to the application, or potential application, of one or more of a variety of laws and regulations, as described below under “Risks Related to Regulation of Use of Our Service.”
If organizations do not perceive the potential and relative benefits of our PCC service or believe that competing customer communications products and services offer a better value, the market for our service may not continue to develop or may develop more slowly than we expect, either of which would significantly adversely affect our business, financial condition and operating results. Because the market for our service is still developing and the manner of this development is difficult to predict, we could make errors in predicting and reacting to relevant business trends, which could harm our operating results.
Our quarterly operating results can be difficult to predict and can fluctuate substantially, which could result in volatility in the price of our common stock.
Our quarterly revenues and other operating results have varied in the past and are likely to continue to vary significantly from quarter to quarter. Our agreements with clients typically do not require minimum levels of usage or payments, and our revenues therefore fluctuate based on the actual usage of our service each quarter by existing and new clients. Quarterly fluctuations in our operating results also might be due to numerous other factors, including:
    our ability to attract new clients, including the length of our sales cycles;
 
    our ability to sell new applications and increased usage of existing applications to existing clients;
 
    technical difficulties or interruptions in our on-demand service;
 
    changes in privacy protection and other governmental regulations applicable to the communications industry;
 
    changes in our pricing policies or the pricing policies of our competitors;
 
    changes in the rates we incur for services provided by telecommunication or data carriers or by text or email aggregators;
 
    the financial condition and business success of our clients;
 
    purchasing and budgeting cycles of our clients;
 
    acquisitions of businesses and products by us or our competitors;
 
    competition, including entry into the market by new competitors or new offerings by existing competitors;
 
    our ability to hire, train and retain sufficient sales, client management and other personnel;
 
    restructuring expenses, including severance and other costs attributable to terminations of employment;
 
    timing of development, introduction and market acceptance of new communication services or service enhancements by us or our competitors;
 
    concentration of marketing expenses for activities such as trade shows and advertising campaigns;
 
    expenses related to any new or expanded data centers;
 
    expenses related to merger and acquisition activities; and
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Many of these factors are beyond our control, and the occurrence of one or more of them could cause our operating results to vary widely. Because of quarterly fluctuations, we believe that quarter-to-quarter comparisons of our operating results are not necessarily meaningful.
We may fail to forecast accurately the behavior of existing and potential clients or the demand for our service. Our expense levels are based, in significant part, on our expectations as to future revenues and are largely fixed in the short term. As a result, we could be unable to adjust spending in a timely manner to compensate for any unexpected shortfall in revenues.
Variability in our periodic operating results could lead to volatility in our stock price as equity research analysts and investors respond to quarterly fluctuations. Moreover, as a result of any of the foregoing or other factors, our operating results might not meet our announced guidance or expectations of investors and analysts, in which case the price of our common stock could decrease significantly.
Defects in our platform, disruptions in our on-demand service or errors in execution could diminish demand for our PCC service and subject us to substantial liability.
Our on-demand platform is complex and incorporates a variety of hardware and proprietary and licensed software. From time to time we have found and corrected defects in our platform. Internet-based services such as ours frequently experience issues from undetected defects when first introduced or when new versions or enhancements are released. Defects in our platform could result in service disruptions for one or more clients. For example, in October 2008 we experienced a partial outage of the SoundBite Platform, which precluded some clients from executing their campaigns in their desired timeframes. Our clients might use our on-demand service in unanticipated ways that cause a service disruption for other clients attempting to access their contact list information and other data stored on our platform. In addition, a client may encounter a service disruption or slowdown due to high usage levels of our service.
Clients engage our Client Management organization to assist them in creating and managing a campaign. As part of this process, we typically construct and test a script, map the client’s input file into our platform and map our output files to a client-specific format. In order for a campaign to be executed successfully, our Client Management staff must correctly design, implement, test and deploy these work products. The performance of these tasks can require significant skill and effort, and from time to time has resulted in errors that adversely affected a client’s campaign.
Because clients use our service for critical business processes, any defect in our platform, any disruption in our service or any error in execution could cause existing or potential clients not to use our service, could harm our reputation, and could subject us to litigation and significant liability for damage to our clients’ businesses.
The insurers under our existing liability insurance policy could deny coverage of a future claim that results from an error or defect in our platform or a resulting disruption in our service, or our existing liability insurance might not be adequate to cover all of the damages and other costs of such a claim. Moreover, we cannot assure you that our current liability insurance coverage will continue to be available to us on acceptable terms or at all. The successful assertion against us of one or more large claims that exceeds our insurance coverage, or the occurrence of changes in our liability insurance policy, including an increase in premiums or imposition of large deductible or co-insurance requirements, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results. Even if we succeed in litigation with respect to a claim, we are likely to incur substantial costs and our management’s attention will be diverted from our operations.
Interruptions, delays in service or errors in execution from our key vendors would impair the delivery of our service and could substantially harm our business and operating results.
In delivering our on-demand service, we rely upon a combination of hosting providers, telecommunication and data carriers, and text and email aggregators. We serve our clients from four third-party hosting facilities. One facility is located in Ashburn, Virginia, and is owned by Equinix and operated by InterNap under an agreement that expires in March 2012. Another facility is located in Somerville, Massachusetts, and is owned by CoreSite and operated by InterNap under an agreement that expires in May 2012. Our agreements for these two facilities automatically renew for one year periods unless written notification is made by either party 90 days prior to renewal. Our third facility is located in Slough, United Kingdom and is owned and operated by Equinix (UK) Limited under an agreement that automatically renews for twelve month periods unless written notification is made by either party three months prior to the expiration date. Our fourth facility is located in Las Vegas, Nevada and is owned and operated by Switch Communications under an agreement that automatically renews for monthly periods unless written notification is made 30 days prior to the expiration date. If we are unable to renew these agreements on commercially reasonable terms following their termination, we will need to incur significant expense to relocate our data center or agree to the terms demanded by the hosting provider, either of which could harm our business, financial position and operating results.
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handle contacts correctly, which could cause existing or potential clients not to use our service, could harm our reputation, and could subject us to litigation and significant liability for damage to our clients’ businesses for which we are not fully indemnified or insured. While we have entered into contracts with multiple telecommunication carriers and text aggregators, we currently do not have fully redundant data, text or email services. Our contracts with carriers and aggregators generally can be terminated by either party at the end of the contract term upon written notice delivered by the party a specified number of days before the end of the term. In addition, we generally can terminate a contract at any time upon written notice delivered a specified number of days in advance, subject to the payment of specified termination charges. If a contract is terminated, we might be unable to obtain pricing on similar terms from another provider, which would affect our gross margins and other operating results.
Our hosting facilities and the infrastructures of our service providers are vulnerable to damage or interruption from floods, fires and similar natural events, as well as acts of terrorism, break-ins, sabotage, intentional acts of vandalism and similar misconduct. The occurrence of such a natural disaster or misconduct, a loss of power, a decision by a hosting provider to close a facility without adequate notice or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions in our provision of our service. Any interruption or delay in providing our service, even if for a limited time, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.
Actual or perceived breaches of our security measures could diminish demand for our service and subject us to substantial liability.
Our on-demand service involves the storage and transmission of clients’ proprietary information. Internet-based services such as ours are particularly subject to security breaches by third parties. Breaches of our security measures also might result from employee error or malfeasance or other causes, including as a result of adding new communications services and capabilities to our platform. In the event of a security breach, a third party could obtain unauthorized access to our clients’ contact list information and other data. Techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently, and they typically are not recognized until after they have been launched against a target. As a result, we could be unable to anticipate, and implement adequate preventative measures against, these techniques. Because of the critical nature of data security, any actual or perceived breach of our security measures could subject us to litigation and significant liability for damage to our clients’ businesses, could cause existing or potential clients not to use our service, and could harm our reputation.
The global economic conditions and related credit crisis may continue to adversely affect our business.
Recent global market and economic conditions have been negative, with tighter credit conditions in most major economies continuing in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Continued concerns about the systemic impact of potential long-term and wide-spread recession, energy costs, geopolitical issues, the availability and cost of credit, and the global housing and mortgage markets have contributed to increased market volatility declining business and consumer confidence, increased unemployment, and diminished economic expectations. These market conditions have led to a decrease in spending by businesses and consumers. Continued turbulence in the United States and international markets and economies and prolonged declines in business and consumer spending could result in lower sales of our service, longer sales cycles, difficulties in collecting accounts receivable, gross margin deterioration, slower adoption of new technologies, and increased price competition, any of which may have a negative effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
Many of our clients are not obligated to pay any minimum amount for our service on an on-going basis, and if those clients discontinue use of our service or do not use our service on a regular basis, our revenues would decline.
The agreements we enter into with many of our clients do not require minimum levels of usage or payments and are terminable at will by our clients. The periodic usage of our service by an existing client could decline or fluctuate as a result of a number of factors, including the client’s level of satisfaction with our service, the client’s ability to satisfy its customer contact processes internally, and the availability and pricing of competing products and services. If our service fails to generate consistent business from existing clients, our business, financial condition and operating results will be adversely affected.
We derive a significant portion of our revenues from the sale of our service for use in the collections process, and any event that adversely affects the collection agencies industry or in-house collection departments would cause our revenues to decline.
In recent years, we have focused our sales and marketing activities on the collection process and have targeted large in-house collection departments, as well as collection agencies. Revenues from these collection businesses represented 75% of our revenues in the first six months of 2011, 75% of our revenues in 2010, 77% of our revenues in 2009 and 80% of our revenues in 2008. We expect that revenues from the collection businesses will continue to account for a substantial part of our revenues for the foreseeable future.
Collection businesses are particularly subject to changes in the overall economy. In a sustained economic downturn such as the recession experienced globally since 2009, collection agencies can be affected adversely by declines in liquidation rates as a result of higher debt and lower disposable income. A prolonged economic downturn will impact collections agencies as fewer loans are granted due to the imposition by lenders of conditions on the extension of credit that are not acceptable to potential borrowers. Collection businesses also can be affected adversely by a sustained economic upturn, which may result in lower levels of consumer debt default rates. In addition, collection businesses may be affected adversely by tightening of credit granting practices as well as

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technological advances and regulatory changes that affect the collection of outstanding indebtedness. Any such changes, conditions or events that adversely affect collection businesses could cause us to lose some or all of the recurring business of our clients in the collections business, which in turn could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results.
Moreover, two clients accounted for a total of 24% of our revenues in the first six months of 2011, 23% of our revenues in 2010, 29% of our revenues in 2009 and 31% of our revenues in 2008. These clients are in the collection agencies industry and a large in-house collection department of a telecommunications business. In addition to the risks associated with collections businesses in general, our business, financial condition and operating results would be negatively affected if these clients were to significantly decrease the extent to which they use our service.
Our business will be harmed if we fail to develop new features that keep pace with technological developments and emerging consumer trends.
Organizations can use a variety of communication channels to reach their customers. Emerging consumer trends have forced a greater focus on alternative channels, customer preferences and communications via mobile devices and a failure to address these trends would be a threat to the adoption of our service. Our business, financial condition and operating results will be adversely affected if we are unable to complete and introduce, in a timely manner, new features for our existing service that keep pace with technological developments. For example, because most of our clients access our on-demand service using a web browser, we must modify and enhance our service from time to time to keep pace with new browser technology.
We face intense competition, and our failure to compete successfully would make it difficult for us to add and retain clients and would impede the growth of our business.
The market for on-demand, multi-channel proactive customer communication solutions is intensely competitive, changing rapidly and highly fragmented. It is subject to rapidly developing technology, shifting client requirements, frequent introductions of new products and services, and increased marketing activities of industry participants. Increased competition could result in pricing pressure, reduced sales or lower margins, and could prevent our current service or future PCC solutions from achieving or maintaining broad market acceptance. If we are unable to compete effectively, it will be difficult for us to add and retain clients and our business, financial condition and operating results will be seriously harmed.
Predictive dialers have been the basic method of automated customer communications for the last two decades, particularly for collections activity. The vast majority of telephony customer contact today is completed using predictive dialer technology. Our service competes with on-premise predictive dialers from a limited number of established vendors and a number of smaller vendors, as well as predictive dialers hosted by some of those smaller vendors on an application service provider basis. Many organizations have invested in on-premise predictive dialers and are likely to continue using those dialers until the dialers are no longer operational, despite the availability of additional functionality in our service.
Our service also competes with a number of hosted customer contact services. A limited number of established vendors and a number of smaller, privately held companies offer these hosted services, which compete principally on the basis of price rather than features. In addition, a small number of vendors focus on providing hosted customer contact services with features more comparable to ours. These vendors generally compete on the basis of return on investment and features, rather than price. Other companies may enter the market by offering competing products or services based on emerging technologies, such as open-source frameworks, and may compete on the basis of either features or price. Clients could also potentially employ a multi vendor strategy for risk mitigation purposes.
We increasingly compete with companies providing PCC solutions focused on specific vertical markets, such as healthcare, or on a single communications channel, such as text messaging. Because these solutions are targeted to more narrowly defined markets and enable their providers to develop targeted domain expertise, those providers may be able to develop and offer targeted customer contact solutions than a company, such as ours, that seeks to offer a broad range of PCC applications to organizations across a variety of vertical markets.
Some of our competitors have significantly greater financial, technical, marketing, service and other resources than we have. These vendors also have larger installed client bases and longer operating histories. Competitors with greater financial resources might be able to offer lower prices, additional products or services, or other incentives that we cannot match or offer. These competitors could be in a stronger position to respond quickly to new technologies and could be able to undertake more extensive marketing campaigns.
Mergers or other strategic transactions involving our competitors could weaken our competitive position, which could harm our operating results.
Our industry is highly fragmented, and we believe it is likely that some of our existing competitors will consolidate or will be acquired. For example, EasyLink Services International Corporation, a global provider of comprehensive messaging services and e-commerce solutions, acquired the PGiSend and PGiNotify advanced messaging businesses from Premiere Global Services, Inc., through the purchase of its wholly-owned subsidiary, Xpedite Systems, LLC and its subsidiaries in October 2010. In February 2011, West Corporation, a provider of voice and data solutions, announced it had acquired Twenty First Century Communications, Inc., a provider of automated alerts and notification solutions.

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In addition, some of our competitors may enter into new alliances with each other or may establish or strengthen cooperative relationships with systems integrators, third-party consulting firms or other parties. Any such consolidation, acquisition, alliance or cooperative relationship could lead to pricing pressure and our loss of market share and could result in a competitor with greater financial, technical, marketing, service and other resources, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
The expansion of our business into international markets exposes us to additional business risks, and failure to manage those risks could adversely affect our business and operating results.
Although historically we have targeted substantially all of our sales and marketing efforts principally to organizations located in the United States, more recently we have begun focusing more resources on organizations located in Europe. In April 2010, for example, we formed a subsidiary under UK law to target businesses located in the United Kingdom. We anticipate that an increasing portion of our revenue in future periods will be derived from outside the United States. The continued expansion of our international operations will require substantial financial investment and significant management efforts and will subject us to a number of risks and potential costs, including:
    difficulty in establishing, staffing and managing sales and other operations in countries outside of the United States;
 
    compliance with multiple, conflicting and changing laws and regulations, including employment and tax laws and regulations;
 
    longer payment cycles in some countries;
 
    currency exchange rate fluctuations;
 
    limited protection of intellectual property in some countries outside of the United States;
 
    challenges encountered under local business practices, which vary by country and often favor local competitors;
 
    challenges caused by distance, language and cultural differences; and
 
    difficulty in establishing and maintaining reseller relationships.
Our failure to manage the risks associated with our international operations could limit the growth of our business and adversely affect our operating results.
Failure to maintain our direct sales force will impede our growth.
We are highly dependent on our direct sales force to obtain new clients and to generate repeat business from our existing client base. It is therefore critical that our direct sales force maintain regular contact with our clients, both to gauge client satisfaction with our service as well as to highlight the value that use of our service adds to their enterprises. There is significant competition for direct sales personnel. Our ability to achieve growth in revenues in the future will depend in large part on our success in recruiting, training and retaining sufficient numbers of direct sales personnel. New hires require significant training and typically take more than a year before they achieve full productivity. Our recent and planned hires might not achieve full productivity as quickly as intended, or at all. If we fail to keep, hire and successfully train sufficient numbers of direct sales personnel, we will be unable to increase our revenues and the growth of our business will be impeded.
Because competition for employees in our industry is intense, we might not be able to attract and retain the highly skilled employees we need to execute our business plan.
To continue to execute our business plan, we must attract and retain highly qualified personnel. Competition for these personnel is intense, especially for senior engineers and senior sales executives. We might not be successful in attracting and retaining qualified personnel. We have experienced from time to time in the past, and expect to continue to experience in the future, difficulty in hiring and retaining highly skilled employees with appropriate qualifications. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have. In addition, in making employment decisions, particularly in technology-based industries, job candidates often consider the value of the stock options they are to receive in connection with their employment. Volatility in the price of our common stock could therefore, adversely affect our ability to attract or retain key employees. Furthermore, the requirement to expense stock options could discourage us from granting the size or type of stock options awards that job candidates require to join our company. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business plan and future growth prospects could be severely harmed.
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If we fail to protect our intellectual property rights adequately, our competitors could gain access to our technology and our business could be harmed. We rely on trade secret, copyright and trademark laws, and confidentiality and assignment of invention agreements with employees and third parties, all of which offer only limited protection. The steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property might not prevent misappropriation of our proprietary rights. We have three issued patents and eleven patent applications pending in the United States. Our issued patents and any patents issued in the future may not provide us with any competitive advantages or may be successfully challenged by third parties. Furthermore, legal standards relating to the validity, enforceability and scope of protection of intellectual property rights in other countries are uncertain and might afford little or no effective protection of our proprietary technology. Consequently, we could be unable to prevent our intellectual property rights from being exploited abroad, which could diminish international sales or require costly efforts to protect our technology. Policing the unauthorized use of intellectual property rights is expensive, difficult and, in some cases, impossible. Litigation could be necessary to enforce or defend our intellectual property rights, to protect our trade secrets, or to determine the validity and scope of the proprietary rights of others. Any such litigation could result in substantial costs and diversion of management resources, either of which could harm our business. Accordingly, despite our efforts, we might not be able to prevent third parties from infringing upon or misappropriating our intellectual property.
We are subject to risks associated with outsourcing services to third parties, and failure to manage those risks could adversely affect our business and operating results.
We contract with several third-party vendors that provide services to us or to whom we delegate selected functions. These third-party vendors supplement our internal engineering efforts and off-hours application support. Our arrangements with these third-party vendors may make our operations vulnerable if the third parties fail to satisfy their obligations to us:
    The failure of a third-party vendor to provide high-quality services that conform to required specifications or contractual arrangements could impair our ability to enhance our PCC solutions or to develop new solutions, could create exposure for non-compliance with our contractual commitments to our clients, or could otherwise adversely affect our business and operating results. In particular, a client may impose specific requirements on us, such as an obligation to provide our PCC solutions using only personnel in the United States, with which it may be difficult or impossible for a third-party vendor to comply or for which we may be unable to monitor compliance.
 
    If a third-party vendor fails to maintain and protect the security and confidentiality of data to which it has access, we could be exposed to lawsuits or damage claims that, if upheld, could materially and adversely affect our profitability or we could be subject to substantial regulatory fines or other penalties.
 
    If a third-party vendor fails to comply with other applicable regulatory requirements, we may be held liable for the vendor’s failures or violations. We cannot assure you that our third-party vendors are, or will be, in full compliance with all applicable laws and regulations at all times or that our third-party vendors will be able to comply with any future laws and regulations.
Our third-party vendor arrangements could be adversely impacted by changes in a vendor’s operations or financial condition or other matters outside of our control. There is no assurance that our third-party vendors will continue to provide services to us or that they will renew or not terminate their arrangements with us. Any interruption in their services could adversely affect our operations unless and until we can identify a new vendor or replace an existing vendor’s services with internal resources at additional cost.
Our product development efforts could be constrained by the intellectual property of others, and we could be subject to claims of intellectual property infringement, which could be costly and time-consuming.
The customer communications industry and the telecommunications industry are characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, trademarks and copyrights, and by frequent litigation based upon allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. We have in the past been subject to litigation, now concluded, with a third party that alleged that our service violated the third party’s intellectual property rights. As we seek to extend and expand our service, we could be constrained by the intellectual property rights of others.
We might not prevail in any future intellectual property infringement litigation given the complex technical issues and inherent uncertainties in litigation. Any claims, regardless of their merit, could be time-consuming and distracting to management, result in costly litigation or settlement, cause product development delays, or require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements. If our service violates any third-party proprietary rights, we could be required to re-engineer our platform or seek to obtain licenses from third parties, which might not be available on reasonable terms or at all. Any efforts to re-engineer our service, obtain licenses from third parties on favorable terms or license a substitute technology might not be successful and, in any case, might substantially increase our costs and harm our business, financial condition and operating results. Further, our platform incorporates open source software components that are licensed to us under various public domain licenses. While we believe we have complied with our obligations under the various applicable licenses for open source software that we use, there is little or no legal precedent governing

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the interpretation of many of the terms of certain of these licenses and therefore the potential impact of such terms on our business is somewhat unknown.
Our platform relies on technology licensed from third parties, and our inability to maintain licenses of this technology on similar terms or errors in the licensed technology could result in increased costs or impair the implementation or functionality of our on-demand service, which would adversely affect our business and operating results.
Our multi-tenant customer communication platform relies on technology licensed from third-party providers. For example, we use the Apache web server, the Oracle WebLogic application server, the JBoss Application server, Nuance Communications text-to-speech and automated speech recognition software, the Oracle database, and the MySQL database. We anticipate that we will need to continue to license technology from third parties in the future. There might not always be commercially reasonable software alternatives to the third-party software that we currently license. Any such software alternatives could be more difficult or costly to replace than the third-party software we currently license, and integration of that software into our platform could require significant work and substantial time and resources. Any undetected errors in the software we license could prevent the implementation of our on-demand service, impair the functionality of our service, delay or prevent the release of new features or offerings, and injure our reputation. Our use of additional or alternative third-party software would require us to enter into license agreements with third parties, which might not be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all.
We have in the past and may in the future enter into acquisitions; these acquisitions may be difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value or divert management attention.
We seek to identify and pursue acquisitions of businesses, technologies, and products that will complement our existing operations. For example, in 2008 we acquired substantially all of the assets of Mobile Collect, Inc., a privately held company that provided text messaging and mobile communications solutions and in 2011 we acquired key assets of SmartReply, a mobile marketing company located in Irvine, California. We cannot assure you that any acquisition we make in the future will provide us with the benefits we anticipated in entering into the transaction. Acquisitions are typically accompanied by a number of risks, including:
    difficulties in integrating the operations and personnel of the acquired companies;
 
    maintenance of acceptable standards, controls, procedures and policies;
 
    potential disruption of ongoing business and distraction of management;
 
    impairment of relationships with employees and clients as a result of any integration of new management and other personnel;
 
    inability to maintain relationships with suppliers and clients of the acquired business;
 
    difficulties in incorporating acquired technology and rights into our service and platform;
 
    unexpected expenses resulting from the acquisition;
 
    potential unknown liabilities associated with acquired businesses; and
 
    unanticipated expenses related to acquired technology and its integration into our existing technology.
We currently are seeking to migrate legacy SmartReply clients, many of which operate in the retail industry, from SmartReply’s mobile marketing solutions to our SoundBite Engage platform. We also are integrating certain former SmartReply employees into our newly formed mobile services business units. We acquired the SmartReply assets in order to broaden our client base, and we will be unable to recognize the anticipated benefits of the acquisition if we are unable to transition legacy SmartReply clients to our platform or if we fail to maintain and incentivize the former SmartReply employees in a manner that enables us to add additional retail clients. Moreover, challenges or difficulties in migrating or expanding the legacy SmartReply client base may distract our management’s attention from focusing on our other business operations and may result in our recognizing a lower level of revenues than we expected when we entered into the transaction.
Acquisitions could result in the incurrence of debt, restructuring charges and large one-time write-offs. Acquisitions could also result in goodwill and other intangible assets that are subject to impairment tests, which might result in future impairment charges. Furthermore, if we finance acquisitions by issuing convertible debt or equity securities, our existing stockholders would be diluted and earnings per share could decrease.
From time to time, we might enter into negotiations for acquisitions that are not ultimately consummated. Those negotiations could result in diversion of management time and significant out-of-pocket costs. If we are unable to evaluate and execute acquisitions properly, we could fail to achieve our anticipated level of growth and our business and operating results could be adversely affected.
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Some of our significant clients from time to time may merge, consolidate or enter into alliances with each other. The surviving entity or resulting alliance may subsequently decide to use a different service provider or to manage customer contact campaigns internally. Alternatively, the surviving entity or resulting alliance may elect to continue using our service, but its strengthened financial position or enhanced leverage may lead to pricing pressure. Either of these results could have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition. We may not be able to offset the effects of any such price reductions, and may not be able to expand our client base to offset any revenue declines resulting from such a merger, consolidation or alliance.
Our ability to use net operating loss carryforwards in the United States may be limited.
As of December 31, 2010, we had net operating loss carryforwards of $22.8 million for U.S. federal tax purposes and an additional $6.1 million for state tax purposes. These carryforwards expire between 2011 and 2030. To the extent available, we intend to use these net operating loss carryforwards to reduce the corporate income tax liability associated with our operations. Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code generally imposes an annual limitation on the amount of net operating loss carryforwards that may be used to offset taxable income when a corporation has undergone significant changes in stock ownership. We experienced an ownership change for these purposes in 2007, which resulted in an annual limitation amount of approximately $8.0 million on the use of net operating loss carryforwards generated from November 29, 2001 through November 8, 2007. To the extent our use of net operating loss carryforwards is limited; our income could be subject to corporate income tax earlier than it would if we were able to use net operating loss carryforwards, which could result in lower profits.
If we are unable to raise capital when needed in the future, we may be unable to execute our growth strategy, and if we succeed in raising capital, we may dilute investors’ percentage ownership of our common stock or may subject our company to interest payment obligations and restrictive covenants.
     We may need to raise additional funds through public or private debt or equity financings in order to:
    fund ongoing operations;
 
    take advantage of opportunities, including more rapid expansion of our business or the acquisition of complementary products, technologies or businesses;
 
    develop new services and products; and
 
    respond to competitive pressures.
Any additional capital raised through the sale of equity may dilute investors’ percentage ownership of our common stock. Capital raised through debt financing would require us to make periodic interest payments and may impose potentially restrictive covenants on the conduct of our business. Furthermore, additional financings may not be available on terms favorable to us, or at all. A failure to obtain additional funding could prevent us from making expenditures that may be required to grow or maintain our operations.
Risks Related to Regulation of Use of Our Service
We derive a significant portion of our revenues from the sale of our service for use in the collections process, and our business and operating results could be substantially harmed if new U.S. federal and state laws or regulatory interpretations in one or more jurisdictions either make our service unavailable or less attractive for use in the collections process or expose us to regulation as a debt collector.
Revenues from clients in the collections industry and large in-house, or first-party, collection departments represented 75% of our revenues in the first six months of 2011, 75% of our revenues in 2010, 77% of our revenues in 2009 and 80% of our revenues in 2008. These clients’ use of our service is affected by an array of complex federal and state laws and regulations. The U.S. Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, or FDCPA, limits debt collection communications by clients in the collection agencies industry, including third parties retained by creditors. For example, the FDCPA prohibits abusive, deceptive and other improper debt collection practices, restricts the timing and content of communications regarding a debt or a debtor’s location, and allows consumers to opt out of receiving debt collection communications. In general, the FDCPA also prohibits the use of debt collection communications to cause debtors to incur more debt. Many states impose additional requirements on debt collection communications, including limits on the frequency of debt collection calls, and some of those requirements may be more stringent than the comparable federal requirements. Moreover, debt collection communications are subject to new regulations, as well as changing regulatory interpretations that may be inconsistent among different jurisdictions. For example, the Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, is considering modifying its rules to require opt-in for all prerecorded calls made to mobile phones, which could limit our clients’ ability to use our service to call a mobile phone for the purposes of collections without having prior written consent from a customer. Our business, financial position and operating results could be substantially harmed by the adoption or interpretation of U.S. federal or state laws or regulations that make our service either unavailable or less attractive for debt collection communications by existing and potential clients.

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We provide our service for use by creditors and debt collectors, but we do not believe that we are a debt collector for purposes of these U.S. federal or state regulations. An allegation by one or more jurisdictions that we are a debt collector for purposes of their regulations could cause existing or potential clients not to use our service, harm our reputation, subject us to administrative proceedings, or result in our incurring significant legal fees and other costs. If it were to be determined that we are a debt collector for purposes of the regulations of one or more jurisdictions, we could be exposed to government enforcement actions and regulatory penalties and would be subject to additional rules, including licensing and bonding requirements. The costs of complying with these rules could be substantial, and we might be unable to continue to offer our service for debt collection communications in those jurisdictions, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results. In addition, if clients use our service in violation of limits on the content, timing and frequency of their debt collection communications, we could be subject to claims by consumers that result in costly legal proceedings and that lead to civil damages, fines or other penalties.
We could be subject to significant penalties or damages if our clients violate U.S. federal or state restrictions on the use of artificial or prerecorded messages or automatic telephone dialing systems to contact wireless telephone numbers, and our business and operating results could be substantially harmed if those restrictions make our service unavailable or less attractive.
Under the U.S. Telephone Consumer Protection Act, it is unlawful to use an automatic telephone dialing system or an artificial or prerecorded message to contact any cellular or other wireless telephone number, unless the recipient previously has consented to receiving this type of communication. For example, the FCC is considering modifying its rules to require opt-in for all autodialed or prerecorded calls made to mobile phones, which could limit our clients’ ability to use our service to call a mobile phone for the purposes of information, customer care or telemarketing without having prior written consent from a customer. Our service involves the use of automatic telephone dialing systems, which includes capability for transmitting artificial and prerecorded messages. Although our service are designed to enable a client to screen a contact list to remove wireless telephone numbers, a client may determine that autodialed or prerecorded communication to certain wireless telephone numbers are permitted because the recipients previously have consented to receiving such communication. We cannot ensure that, in using our service for a campaign, a client removes from its contact list the names of all persons who are associated with wireless telephone numbers and who have not consented to receiving autodialed or prerecorded communication, in particular, that the client properly interprets and applies the exemption for recipients who have consented to receiving such communication. Many states have enacted restrictions on using automatic dialing systems and artificial and prerecorded messages to contact wireless telephone numbers, and some of those state requirements may be more stringent than the comparable federal requirements.
In May 2008, a federal district court in California held that the Telemarketing and Consumer Fraud and Abuse Prevention Act prohibits any autodialed or prerecorded telephone call to a consumer’s cell phone unless the consumer had specifically consented to such calls. The same provision of such Act also applies to the sending of commercial text messages to cell phones. The ruling overturned an earlier FCC interpretation that permitted autodialed and prerecorded calls to the cell phone of any consumer who had provided the cell phone number in connection with requesting a product or service. The ruling applied only in California and was subsequently overturned but, as a result of the initial decision, some existing or potential clients may decide to limit their use of our service to reach consumers on wireless numbers, which could materially adversely affect our revenues and other operating results.
If clients use our service in a manner that violates any of these governmental regulations, federal or state authorities may seek to subject us to regulatory fines or other penalties, even if the violation did not result from a failure of our service. If clients use our service to screen for wireless telephone numbers and our screening mechanisms fail, we may be subject to regulatory fines or other penalties as well as contractual claims by clients for damages, and our reputation may be harmed.
Regulatory restrictions on automatic telephone dialing systems and prerecorded messages present particular problems for businesses in the collection agencies industry. These third-party collection agencies and debt buyers do not have direct relationships with the consumer debtors and therefore typically do not have the ability to obtain from a debtor the consent required to permit the use of autodialed or prerecorded messages in contacting a debtor at a wireless telephone number. These businesses’ lack of a direct relationship with debtors also makes it more difficult for them to evaluate whether a debtor has provided such consent. For example, a collection agency frequently must evaluate whether past actions taken by a debtor, such as providing a cellular telephone number in a loan application, constitute consent sufficient to permit the agency to contact the debtor using autodialed or prerecorded messages. Moreover, a significant period of time elapses between the time at which a loan is made and the time at which a collection agency or debt buyer seeks to contact the debtor for repayment, which further complicates the determination of whether the collection agency or debt buyer has the required consent to use an automatic telephone dialing system or prerecorded messages. The difficulties encountered by these third-party collection businesses are becoming increasingly problematic as the percentage of U.S. consumers using cellular telephones continues to increase. If these third-party collection businesses are unable to use an automatic telephone dialing system or prerecorded messages to contact a substantial portion of their debtors, our service will be less useful to them. If our clients in the collection agencies industry significantly decrease their use of our service, our business, financial position and operating results would be substantially harmed.
We could be subject to penalties if we or our clients violate U.S. federal or state telemarketing restrictions due to a failure of our service or otherwise, which could harm our financial position and operating results.
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laws, empower both the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, and the FCC to regulate interstate telephone sales calling activities. The FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule and analogous FCC rules require us to, for example, transmit Caller ID information, disclose certain information to call recipients, and retain certain business records. FTC and FCC rules proscribe misrepresentations, prohibit the abandonment of telemarketing calls and limit the timing of calls to consumers. Both the FTC and FCC also prohibit telemarketing calls to persons who have placed their numbers on the national Do-Not-Call Registry, except for calls made with an existing business relationship, or EBR, or subject to other limited exceptions. If we fail to comply with applicable FTC and FCC telemarketing regulations, we may be subject to substantial regulatory fines or other penalties as well as contractual claims by clients for damages, and our reputation may be harmed. The FTC’s Telemarketing Sales Rule, for example, imposes fines of up to $16,000 per violation. The FCC may also impose forfeitures of up to $16,000 per violation of its telemarketing rules. If clients use our service in a manner that violates any of these telemarketing regulations, the FTC or FCC may seek to subject us to regulatory fines or other penalties, even if the violation did not result from a failure of our service.
In addition, in 2008 the FTC adopted an amendment to the Telemarketing Sales Rule requiring that “express written consent” be obtained for all pre-recorded sales calls that are delivered as of September 1, 2009. Thus, organizations that attempt to sell goods or services through the use of prerecorded messages will need to take the extra step to obtain “opt-in” from their consumers before pre-recorded sales calls can be delivered, even with respect to consumers with whom the organization has an EBR. We cannot ensure that, in using our service for a campaign, a client will obtain appropriate “opt-in” authorization before placing prerecorded telemarketing calls or that the client properly interprets and applies the “opt-in” requirement. If clients use our service to place unauthorized calls or in a manner that otherwise violates FTC or FCC restrictions on prerecorded telemarketing calls, U.S. federal or state authorities may seek to subject us to substantial regulatory fines or other penalties, even if the violation did not result from a failure of our screening mechanisms.
Many states have enacted prohibitions or restrictions on telemarketing calls into their states, specifically covering the use of automatic dialing system and predictive dialing techniques. Some of those state requirements are more stringent than the comparable federal requirements. If clients use our service in a manner that violates any of these telemarketing regulations, state authorities may seek to subject us to regulatory fines or other penalties, even if the violation did not result from a failure of our service.
To the extent that our service is used to send text or email messages, our clients will be, and we may be, affected by regulatory requirements in the United States. Organizations may determine not to use these channels because of prior consent, or opt-in, requirements or other regulatory restrictions, which could harm our future business growth.
Our failure to comply with numerous and overlapping information security and privacy requirements could subject us to fines and other penalties as well as claims by our clients for damages, any of which could harm our reputation and business.
Our collection, use and disclosure of personal information are affected by numerous privacy, security and data protection regulations. We are subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Privacy Act when we receive nonpublic personal information from clients that are treated as financial institutions under those rules. These rules restrict disclosures of consumer information and limit uses of such information to certain purposes that are disclosed to consumers. The related Gramm-Leach-Bliley Safeguards Rule requires our financial institution clients to impose administrative, technical and physical data security measures in their contracts with us. Compliance with these contractual requirements can be costly, and our failure to satisfy these requirements could lead to regulatory penalties or contractual claims by clients for damages.
In some instances our service requires us to receive consumer information that is protected by the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which defines permissible uses of consumer information furnished to or obtained from consumer reporting agencies. We generally rely on our clients’ assurances that any such information is requested and used for permissible purposes, but we cannot be certain that our clients comply with these restrictions. We could incur costs or could be subject to fines or other penalties if the FTC determines that we have mishandled protected information.
Many jurisdictions, including the majority of states, have data security laws including data security breach notification laws. When our clients operate in industries that have specialized data privacy and security requirements, they may be subject to additional data protection restrictions. For example, the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, regulates the maintenance, use and disclosure of personally identifiable health information by certain health care-related entities. States may adopt privacy and security regulations that are more stringent than federal rules, and we may be required by such regulations to establish comprehensive data security programs that could be costly. If we experience a breach of data security, we could be subject to costly legal proceedings that could lead to civil damages, fines or other penalties. We or our clients could be required to report such breaches to affected consumers or regulatory authorities, leading to disclosures that could damage our reputation or harm our business, financial position and operating results.
Since 2007 we have been certified as compliant with the Payment Card Industry, or PCI, Data Security Standard, which mandates a set of comprehensive requirements for protecting payment account data. Our continuing PCI compliance is essential for many of our PCC offerings, such as fully-automated payment transactions and payment authorizations, and is particularly important for financial institutions, credit card issuers and retailers. We must seek and receive certification of PCI compliance on an annual basis. PCI compliance measures are rigorous and subject to change, and our implementation of new PCC platform technology and solutions could adversely affect our ability to be re-certified. As a result, we cannot assure you that we will be able to maintain our certification

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for PCI compliance. Our loss of PCI certification could make our PCC solutions less attractive to potential customers, particularly those in the financial and retail industries, which in turn could have an adverse effect on our revenue and other operating results.
We may record certain of our calls for quality assurance, training or other purposes. Many states require both parties to consent to such recording, and may adopt inconsistent standards defining what type of consent is required. Violations of these rules could subject us to fines or other penalties, criminal liability, or claims by clients for damages, any of which could hurt our reputation or harm our business, financial position and operating results.
It may be impossible for us to comply with the different data protection regulations that affect us in different jurisdictions. For example, the USA PATRIOT Act provides U.S. law enforcement authorities certain rights to obtain personal information in the control of U.S. persons and entities without notifying the affected individuals. Some foreign laws, including some in the European Union, prohibit such disclosures. Such conflicts could subject us and clients to costs, liabilities or negative publicity that could impair our ability to expand our operations into some countries and therefore limit our future growth.
The expansion of our business into international markets requires us to comply with additional debt collection, telemarketing, data privacy or similar regulations, which may make it costly or difficult to operate in these markets.
Although historically we have targeted substantially all of our sales and marketing efforts principally to organizations located in the United States, more recently we have begun focusing more resources on organizations located in Europe. In April 2010, for example, we formed a subsidiary under UK law to target businesses located in the United Kingdom. Countries other than the United States have laws and regulations governing debt collection, telemarketing, data privacy or other communications activities comparable in purpose to the U.S. and state laws and regulations described above. Compliance with these requirements may be costly and time consuming, and may limit our ability to operate successfully in one or more foreign jurisdictions.
Many of the regulations governing our activities in the European Union result from EU legislation on privacy and data protection. As a result, the principal lawmakers for our purposes are European institutions — the European Commission, the European Parliament and the Council of Ministers. We take into account developments in the European Union as well as developments in the United Kingdom. Because our primary international business is driven from the United Kingdom, our regulatory due diligence to date has been focused on this member State. In terms of enforcement, the UK regulators of primary importance to us are:
    Ofcom, the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industry;
 
    the Information Commissioner, an independent authority whose role is to uphold information rights in the public interest, promoting openness by public bodies and data privacy for individuals; and
 
    the Office of Fair Trading, an independent authority that enforces consumer protection and competition laws and reviews proposed mergers.
The Communications Act of 2003 gives Ofcom the power to issue and enforce notifications when it has reasonable grounds to believe a person has persistently misused an electronic communications network or service in such a manner, or otherwise engage in conduct that has either the effect, or likely effect, of causing another person unnecessarily to suffer annoyance, inconvenience or anxiety. The other sector-specific legislation governing our UK operations consists of The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations (2003) as amended in 2011 to implement the new e-privacy EU Directive. These regulations contain marketing rules governing businesses that send marketing and advertising by electronic means such as telephone, fax, email, text message and picture (including video) message and by using an automated calling system. These regulations also cover related areas such as telephone directories, traffic and location data, and the use of cookies.
Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
If equity research analysts do not publish research or reports about our business or if they issue unfavorable commentary or downgrade our common stock, the price of our common stock could decline.
The trading market for our common stock depends in part on the research and reports that equity research analysts publish about our company and business. The price of our common stock could decline if one or more equity research analysts downgrade our common stock or if those analysts issue other unfavorable commentary or cease publishing reports about our company and business.
Future sales of our common stock by existing stockholders could cause our stock price to decline.
If our existing stockholders sell substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market, the market price of our common stock could decrease significantly. The perception in the public market that our stockholders might sell shares of common stock could also depress the market price of our common stock. The market price of shares of our common stock could drop significantly if our officers, directors or other stockholders decide to sell shares of our common stock into the market.

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Our directors, executive officers and their affiliated entities will continue to have substantial control over us and could limit the ability of other stockholders to influence the outcome of key transactions, including changes of control.
As of June 30, 2011, our executive officers and directors and their affiliated entities, in the aggregate, beneficially owned 45% of our common stock. In particular, affiliates of North Bridge Ventures Partners, including James A. Goldstein, one of our directors, in the aggregate, beneficially owned 29% of our common stock. Our executive officers, directors and their affiliated entities, if acting together, are able to control or significantly influence all matters requiring approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and the approval of mergers or other significant corporate transactions. These stockholders may have interests that differ from those of other investors, and they might vote in a way with which other investors disagree. The concentration of ownership of our common stock could have the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change of control of our company, could deprive our stockholders of an opportunity to receive a premium for their common stock as part of a sale of our company, and could negatively affect the market price of our common stock.
Our corporate documents and Delaware law make a takeover of our company more difficult, which could prevent certain changes in control and limit the market price of our common stock.
Our charter and by-laws and Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law contain provisions that could enable our management to resist a takeover of our company. These provisions could discourage, delay, or prevent a change in the control of our company or a change in our management. They could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for stockholders to elect directors and take other corporate actions. The existence of these provisions could limit the price that investors are willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock. Some provisions in our charter and by-laws could deter third parties from acquiring us, which could limit the market price of our common stock.
We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.
We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. Accordingly, investors are not likely to receive any dividends on their common stock in the foreseeable future, and their ability to achieve a return on their investment will therefore depend on appreciation in the price of our common stock.
Item 2.   Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
During the three months ended June 30, 2011, we issued 46,323 shares of common stock pursuant to the exercise of stock options for cash consideration with aggregate exercise proceeds of $33,000. The shares issued pursuant to the exercise of stock options were issued in reliance upon the exemptions from registration provided by Rule 701 or Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
Item 6.   Exhibits
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description of Exhibit
10.1
  2011 Management Cash Compensation Plan (as amended on July 8, 2011) incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to current report on Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on July 15, 2011
 
   
31.1
  Certification of principal executive officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
   
31.2
  Certification of principal financial officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
   
32.1
  Certification of principal executive officer and principal financial officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. 1350
 
   
101.INS#
  XBRL Instance Document
 
   
101.SCH#
  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
 
   
101.CAL#
  XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
 
   
101.LAB#
  XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document
 
   
101.PRE#
  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

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#   Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is deemed not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and otherwise is not subject to liability under these sections.

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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
         
  SoundBite Communications, Inc.
 
 
Date: August 5, 2011  By:   /s/ James A. Milton    
    James A. Milton   
    President and Chief Executive Officer   
 
     
Date: August 5, 2011  By:   /s/ Robert C. Leahy    
    Robert C. Leahy   
    Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Chief Accounting Officer)
 

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EXHIBIT INDEX
     
Exhibit    
Number   Description of Exhibit
10.1
  2011 Management Cash Compensation Plan (as amended on July 8, 2011) incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to current report on Form 8-K/A filed with the SEC on July 15, 2011
 
   
31.1
  Certification of principal executive officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
   
31.2
  Certification of principal financial officer pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
 
   
32.1
  Certification of principal executive officer and principal financial officer pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, 18 U.S.C. 1350
 
   
101.INS#
  XBRL Instance Document
 
   
101.SCH#
  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
 
   
101.CAL#
  XBRL Taxonomy Calculation Linkbase Document
 
   
101.LAB#
  XBRL Taxonomy Label Linkbase Document
 
   
101.PRE#
  XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document
 
#   Pursuant to Rule 406T of Regulation S-T, XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language) information is deemed not filed or a part of a registration statement or prospectus for purposes of sections 11 or 12 of the Securities Act of 1933, is deemed not filed for purposes of section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and otherwise is not subject to liability under these sections.

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