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| Mar 31, 2009 | What Can Voice Do For You? Ribbit Announces Winners of KillerApps Challenge | Ribbit, the VOIP platform that was bought by British Telecom last year, announced the winners of its $100,000 KillerApps challenge today. The contest was obviously meant to stimulate interest in Ribbit’s APIs among developers, and judging f... |
| Dec 16, 2008 | Gizmo Finally Introduces A Browser-Based Phone And Ringing Links | Skype competitor Gizmo is rolling out a Flash version of its SIP phone client. GizmoCall works entirely in the browser, much like other Flash-based phones from Ribbit (which was acquired by BT), TringMe, and others. In fact, Gizmo’s in-brow... |
| Jul 29, 2008 | Why British Telecom Bought Ribbit, The Web Telephony Platform | Communications company British Telecom (BT) has acquired innovative web telephony platform Ribbit for a reported $105 million. BT has been sniffing around the Bay Area for startups to acquire for some time and this one is a great fit. Not j... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Ribbit, “Silicon Valley’s first phone company” | Ribbit is a remarkable new company, and it knows it: It calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company.” That sounds like marketing overreach for a young company barely launched, but when you look at what it’s doing, you can see why the... |
| Jan 28, 2008 | Ribbit Readies An Amphibian Attack On Voice Apps | Ribbit, the startup that is building a platform for Voice 2.0 apps, is creating a Web-based phone service for consumers codenamed “Amphibian.” The point of Amphibian is both to demonstrate the capabilities of Ribbit’s technology and to serv... |
| Dec 18, 2007 | Can start-up Ribbit conquer 'unified voice' before Google & Verizon? | A small, Silicon Valley-based start-up with an AT&T heritage is now working side-by-side big partners such as Salesforce.com and Adobe in an effort to revolutionize voice calls as we know them today. Dubbing itself "the Silicon Val... |
| Dec 17, 2007 | Ribbit Pulls Back the Covers On Its Voice 2.0 Master Plan (And Raises $10 Million B Round) | In case it isn’t abundantly clear by now, voice is just another application—bits that can be co-mingled with other data in unexpected ways. Ribbit, a startup that officially launches today and calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone comp... |
| Dec 3, 2007 | A Lot More Flash (And AIR) Phones Coming Soon From Ribbit | Earlier this morning, I posted about TringMe and the coming flood of Flash-based Web phones. I forgot to mention Ribbit, which is about to publicly unleash an entire development platform for building Flash phones on December 13. Ribbit’s de... |