Microsoft buys communication startup Talko, will shutter service in 2016

Building a popular messaging app is a tough business, and Talko is getting out of it. The collaboration and voice chat app company announced Monday that it has sold to Microsoft, which will be rolling its technology and team members into Skype. In a post to the company's blog, the Talko team said that success in the messaging app space for consumers is binary -- some companies are able to launch a wildly popular product that takes off with wide adoption, while others drift into obscuri