| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.08.2024 | TaxBit Launches Industry's First Principal Market Pricing Feature for Fair Value Accounting | New Principal Market Analysis Tool Aligns with Fair Value Accounting, Offering Unmatched Precision and Compliance.
NEW YORK, Aug. 7, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- TaxBit, the leader in digital asset accounting and tax solutions, has just set a new i... |
| 09.08.2011 | BT kills Ribbit’s web phone platform, sends customers to the fast-growing Twilio | BT, the UK-based phone giant, has killed the Ribbit web phone and messaging platform it owns and is advising Ribbit customers to head to competitor Twilio.
Twilio is a fast-growing company that sources tell us is “killing it” in terms of re... |
| 21.03.2011 | Is a “huge wave” of M&As, financing deals about to hit Silicon Valley? | Investment banks are scrambling to open branches and make their presence known in the Silicon Valley area because they are expecting a “huge wave” of mergers and acquisitions and financing deals in tech and media over the next two years, Ke... |
| 04.10.2010 | Yap Transcribes Voicemails On Your iPhone For Free | Listening to voicemails is a huge waste of time. That’s why apps that transcribe your voicemail to text are a godsend. The new Yap Voicemail app is now available for the iPhone. You route your voicemails through Yap, which launched a few ye... |
| 10.09.2010 | Adobe Celebrates, But Will Flash Developers Return to Apple? | Last April, Apple changed its developers terms of service to restrict the use of third-party development tools in creating apps for iOS, the operating system behind the iPhone, iPod Touch and the iPad. The restrictions essentially banned th... |
| 05.08.2010 | C2Call closes a $2m series A round for its browser-based VoIP phone | C2Call, the free browser-based Internet phone solution, has just raised an additional $2 million in Series A funding from Draper Investment Company, High-Tech Gründerfonds and Mr. Klaus Wecken, co-founder of KHK Software AG, for internation... |
| 09.03.2010 | Phonebooth Launches Free Google Voice Alternative for Startups and Small Businesses | Phonebooth.com, a VOIP service for individuals and small businesses, just launched a free version of its service. Phonebooth, just like Google Voice and Ribbit Mobile, provides its users with a free local phone number that can be forwarded ... |
| 11.02.2010 | fonYou to let operators fight back against Google Voice, Ribbit et al | [Spain] With the rise of consumer-facing cloud telephone services, such as Google Voice and Ribbit, the call management services of traditional mobile operators are starting to look a bit long in the tooth. How long, therefore, before they ... |
| 30.12.2009 | Twilio raises $3.7M to combine phone calls with web apps | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
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Twilio, a startup that can add cool phone... |
| 30.12.2009 | Twilio raises $3.7M to combine phone calls with web apps | Updated
Twilio, a startup that can add cool phone features to web applications, has raised around $3.7 million in new funding, according to a regulatory filing.
The San Francisco startup says it can accept calls from landlines, cell phones,... |
| 21.12.2009 | Google Voice Competitor Ribbit Mobile Launches iPhone App (500 Invites) | Ribbit Mobile, which offers a set of VoIP services that is very similar to Google Voice, just launched its first iPhone app (iTunes link). The app allows users to check their voicemail, read voicemail transcriptions, forward voicemails by e... |
| 20.12.2009 | Ribbit Mobile Gets An iPhone App By Sticking To Voicemail | Ever since Ribbit Mobile launched, I’ve been using it to forward my calls to Skype when I am at my computer and transcribe all of my voicemails, the text of which are then sent to me via email. It’s similar to Google Voice (which Mike uses)... |
| 23.11.2009 | Five Ways Startups Are Tapping Into LinkedIn's API | This morning, professional social network LinkedIn announced that it is opening up its API for developers to build applications around the platform. While LinkedIn has partnered with Twitter, Microsoft, IBM, Research In Motion and others, t... |
| 23.11.2009 | An Ecosystem Is Born: LinkedIn Opens Up API | As rumors continue to swirl around LinkedIn’s possible IPO, the professional social network is steadily adding useful features that help transcend the platform’s technology into other applications.
LinkedIn recently launched two-way integra... |
| 23.11.2009 | LinkedIn expands platform in attempt to one-up Facebook Connect | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
LinkedIn aims to be an even more central part of ... |
| 23.11.2009 | LinkedIn expands platform in attempt to one-up Facebook Connect | LinkedIn aims to be an even more central part of your professional identity, by expanding its platform today with the site developer.linkedin.com.
The Mountain View, Calif.-based professional networking site already offers a platform for th... |
| 20.11.2009 | Knx.To Is Your Social Graph And Address Book Rolled Into One | Angstro, a 2008 TechCrunch50 startup, launched with a product that socialized the content on the web by tapping into your social graph. At the Real-Time CrunchUp today the startup is launching Knx.to, a real-time search engine capability an... |
| 12.11.2009 | The Bay Area: A hub of emerging telephony? | As communications move to the cloud and platforms becomes open, a new community emerges.
I've been wondering.
The Bay Area is well documented as the engine of innovation for web services, social networking and more. Some might argue even to... |
| 07.11.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Mega Content Sites, Gen Y on Twitter, iPhone App Recommendation Services, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup – our newsletter summarizing the top stories of the week – we analyze a new breed of content site that is rapidly gaining momentum, look into recent statistics showing that Gen Y is using Twitter more, c... |
| 04.11.2009 | Say Goodbye to Voicemail, Hello To Ribbit Mobile (500 Invites) | First, there was Google Voice. And all was good, and not so good. But it showed that there is a better way to manage voicemails than to listen to 15 in a row just to get to the one you care about.
Now, there is an alternative to Google Voic... |
| 03.11.2009 | For those who missed Google Voice beta, Ribbit Mobile opens in beta | Some of us missed the boat and never got in the Google Voice beta test group. With all the controversy the service stirred up among the media, the public, telecommunications companies, and the FCC, there's a distinct possibility that Google... |
| 03.11.2009 | Ribbit challenges Google Voice with Ribbit Mobile | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Over the past year, Ribbit, a web-based service that provides a new way to manage calls, messages and phones, has had a flurry of activ... |
| 03.11.2009 | Ribbit challenges Google Voice with Ribbit Mobile | Over the past year, Ribbit, a web-based service that provides a new way to manage calls, messages and phones, has had a flurry of activity, including their acquisition by British Telecom and most recently, their integration of several gadge... |
| 02.11.2009 | Ribbit Launches Google Voice Challenger | Ribbit just announced the launch of Ribbit Mobile. Ribbit Mobile is a cloud-based VoIP telephony service that brings together web-based calling, smart call routing and voicemail transcriptions.
It is hard to look at Ribbit Mobile without co... |
| 30.09.2009 | Widgets, Robots & Extensions: A Few Things to Try Once You Get Your Google Wave Invite | Google will unleash 100,000 invites to use Google Wavelater today. While Wave itself is obviously an exciting product, Google is also trying to create a developer ecosystem around Wave and has selected six Wave extensions to feature as good... |
| 29.09.2009 | Google Wave opens up tomorrow, but maybe not for you | Google is letting a few more people play with its new communication and collaboration tool, Wave, starting tomorrow. Specifically, 100,000 developers, Google Apps users, and other sign-ups at the Wave website will be getting access to a pre... |
| 29.09.2009 | Google Wave opens up tomorrow, but maybe not for you | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Google is letting a few more people play with its... |
| 29.09.2009 | Google Wave Starts Rolling, Picks Up Over 100,000 New Riders | When Google Wave was unveiled at Google I/O back in May, we noted that it was one of the most ambitious projects we’ve ever seen. Started as a side project in Google’s Sydney, Australia offices, it had the potential to significantly alter t... |
| 29.09.2009 | Ribbit injects voice into Google Wave release | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Ribbit, one of the earliest web-based telephone s... |
| 29.09.2009 | 100,000 Google Wave Preview Invites: Everything You Need to Know About Tomorrow’s Launch | Google just officially announced that it will send out 100,000 invitations to preview Google Wave tomorrow. These accounts will go to developers who are already in the developers preview and users who signed up for accounts at wave.google.c... |
| 29.09.2009 | Ribbit injects voice into Google Wave release | Ribbit, one of the earliest web-based telephone services (acquired last year by British telecom giant BT), plans to ride Google Wave‘s coattails — announcing the integration of several gadgets allowing voice calls, phone conferencing, text ... |
| 02.06.2009 | Ribbit, Sprout inject “voice” into ad campaigns | Ribbit, the company that lets people easily create phone-like applications within Web sites, has struck a partnership with the online marketing company Sprout to insert “voice” and other phone features into advertising campaigns.
Ribbit, no... |
| 03.04.2009 | Weekly Wrapup: Web 2.0 Expo, Skype for iPhone, Local Web, And More… | In this edition of the Weekly Wrapup, our newsletter where the top stories of the week are summarized, we present highlights from our coverage of the Web 2.0 Expo (held this week in San Francisco), review the new Skype app for iPhone, discu... |
| 31.03.2009 | 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... |
| 31.03.2009 | Ribbit announces winners of its “killer” mobile apps competition | Ribbit, the mobile development platform owned by BT, announced the winners of its $100,000 Killer App Challenge today, recognizing teams that most effectively integrated voice functionality into apps, web sites and mobile communities. Produ... |
| 26.02.2009 | Cloud Computing Roundtable Sold Out, But It Will Be Streamed | Tomorrow’s Cloud Computing Roundtable is sold out. But we have good news. For those of you who can’t join us in person, we will be live-streaming the event. Thank you to Sun Microsystems for sponsoring the roundtable stream (powered by ustr... |
| 17.11.2008 | Ribbit launches its web phone platform | Ribbit, the web phone company recently acquired by BT for $105 million, has opened its developer platform to the general public. Although the Mountain View, Calif. company makes useful applications like the recently-updated Ribbit for Sales... |
| 03.11.2008 | Ribbit adds landlines and instant messaging to your Salesforce account | Ribbit, the web phone company recently acquired by BT, continues to tie together many of your communication tools with the release of Ribbit for Salesforce 2.0, which adds compatibility with landline phones, Google Talk and Skype.
Calling i... |
| 19.08.2008 | Voxeo Flies Under the Radar | IVR and VoIP provider Voxeo has been putting up annual growth numbers near 100%, serving dozens of big name companies, and getting considerable attention from VC’s in the Valley as of late. However, the company has remained largely under th... |
| 02.08.2008 | Weekly Wrapup, 28 July – 1 August 2008 | It’s time to wrap up the week’s web tech news, reviews and analysis on ReadWriteWeb. On the product side we reviewed a super-hyped new search engine called Cuil, analysed the BT acquisition of web telephony platform Ribbit, looked at why Go... |
| 29.07.2008 | BT buys Ribbit for $105M | BT, the dominant British telecommunications company, has acquired Ribbit, a company that has styled itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” for $105 million.
VentureBeat first heard news of the deal in July and reported it. At the ti... |
| 29.07.2008 | Ribbit investor Robert Ackerman talks about good returns, bad markets and ‘Communication 2.0’ | Today was probably a good day for Robert Ackerman, managing director and co-founder of Allegis Capital. Less than a year after Allegis led the $10 million second venture round for Ribbit, “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” BT announced... |
| 29.07.2008 | 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... |
| 29.07.2008 | BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million | BT announced that it has acquired Silicon Valley based Ribbit for $105 million in cash. On July 9 we reported that Ribbit executives were telling friends the deal was done while simultaneously denying it to the press. One thing we got wrong... |
| 09.07.2008 | BT Has Acquired Ribbit For $55 Million To Build GrandCentral Competitor, Say Ribbit Execs To Friends | This is a strange story. Rumors circulated today that Silicon Valley based startup Ribbit was acquired by British Telecom, and VentureBeat ran with the story. The company later denied the rumors, but wouldn’t comment on whether or not merge... |
| 09.06.2008 | Ifbyphone brings its telephone platform natively to the iPhone | It used to be that you had a telephone that sat on a table somewhere in your house and it had a number. Both were anything but portable. You could call another person’s phone with their own number, but if that number was busy, you were out ... |
| 18.03.2008 | Under the Radar Conference This Week | Dealmaker Media may have put together its best annual Under the Radar conference yet. This Thursday in Mountain View, California, more than 30 selected startups will show their wares and some world class technology speakers will offer their... |
| 17.03.2008 | BroadSoft Going Up Against Ribbit with VoIP Platform for Web Apps | Tomorrow BroadSoft, a VoIP software provider for telecom companies that’s been around since 1998, will officially announce a platform for integrating voice into web applications. The company’s new offering, BroadSoft Xtended, will enable de... |
| 14.03.2008 | Many phone companies in Silicon Valley? | Plenty of startups are determined to see proof that Apple won’t be Silicon Valley’s only phone company. That was evident at the eComm conference this week on Emerging Communications. I was taken aback by the variety of ideas floated at the ... |
| 29.02.2008 | VoiceSage wins €3m round for voice apps | Making voice calls from within the browser, and the growing links between voice applications and the web of data is a big trend online today. Last December Ribbit, a startup that calls itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” launched... |
| 29.01.2008 | Sprout: The Online WYSIWYG Editor for Flash | A new application called Sprout, launching in private beta at DEMO today, promises to make the creation of Flash applets a whole lot easier.
Sprout is a browser-based, WYSIWYG editor for Flash with an interface reminiscent of Photoshop or D... |
| 28.01.2008 | 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... |
| 28.01.2008 | 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... |
| 28.01.2008 | DEMO: A roundup of companies launching | There are 78 companies presenting at the DEMO conference this week. We’ll be covering some of the more notable ones in separate posts.
First, we’ve picked out 16 of them here for brief overview: Yoics, Acesis, Asankya, Atlaspost, Bitgravity... |
| 17.12.2007 | 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... |
