Comments on: BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million

By: boyan

boyan — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:31:21 +0000

I agree with Bob Ackerman. It’s risky to build mobile services and applications by yourself, given that the mobile technologies are advancing really fast nowadays and it’s impossible to follow and get advantage of all these innovations, ignoring the opportunities and ideas, offered by other companies. Along with Ribbit, Bianor ( http://www.bianor.com/ ) is also an example of a company experiencing such a rapid progress last years.

Congratulations to Ribbit.

By: Say Goodbye to Voicemail, Hello To Ribbit Mobile (500 Invites)

Say Goodbye to Voicemail, Hello To Ribbit Mobile (500 Invites) — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:04:46 +0000

[...] more services, such as human transcription. Ribbit was acquired by British Telecom last year for $105 million, so it’s not going [...]

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Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:18:12 +0000

[...] is a platform for creating voice-based applications over the Internet. TechCrunch | [...]

By: Ribbit Acquired by British Telecom for $105 M | Padub

Ribbit Acquired by British Telecom for $105 M | Padub — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:08:36 +0000

[...] Ribbit, the Flex based Internet telephony company based in Silicon Valley, has been acquired by British Telecom for $105 M. [...]

By: Ribbit Acquired by British Telecom for $105 M | Padub

Ribbit Acquired by British Telecom for $105 M | Padub — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:08:35 +0000

[...] Ribbit, the Flex based Internet telephony company based in Silicon Valley, has been acquired by British Telecom for $105 M. [...]

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Sat, 27 Dec 2008 18:00:52 +0000

[...] was built by a startup called Ringful to showcase its voice app APIs. (It hopes to compete with BT’s Ribbit and Gizmo). Voicetag’s future feature list [...]

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Facebook应用Voicetag提供语音邮件功能 | 互联网营销和语义网络 — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 08:43:48 +0000

[...] Voicetag建立在一个叫Ringful的项目之上开放应用API，其用于和BT的Ribbit或Gizmo竞争。Voicetag未来会添加的功能列表如下： [...]

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Voicetag Brings Voicemail To Facebook | El Gallito Blog — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:27:37 +0000

[...] was built by a startup called Ringful to showcase its voice app APIs. (It hopes to compete with BT’s Ribbit and Gizmo). Voicetag’s future feature list [...]

By: CapitalOffense

CapitalOffense — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:01:13 +0000

If you have a sizable amount of money and you want a car…do you go buy one that already exists for which someone has sweated the details, or do you set out to build one? The first option gets you on the road now, the other gets you on the road later…maybe.

By: Gizmo Finally Introduces A Browser-Based Phone And Links That Ring

Gizmo Finally Introduces A Browser-Based Phone And Links That Ring — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 16:53:20 +0000

[...] 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-browser phone comes about a year too late. (But it [...]

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Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:33:59 +0000

[...] Ribbit is a platform for creating voice-based applications over the Internet. TechCrunch | GigaOm [...]

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:43:52 +0000

BT Acquires Ribbit For $105 Million…

If Ribbit’s plans succeeds, its platform will allow thousands of new phone apps to appear soon, and they almost all will be Flash apps. Ribbit allows developers to create voice apps in a familiar Web application development environment that can easil…

By: BT acquires Ribbit platform to take on Skype? « Opencast Project - a blog

BT acquires Ribbit platform to take on Skype? « Opencast Project - a blog — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:15:18 +0000

[...] blogged it here… they claim that Ribbit has given a ten-fold return to the investors who put in £13m some [...]

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usavalentine — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:56:29 +0000

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By: Jennifer Jones

Jennifer Jones — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:32:40 +0000

Congrats to RIBBIT! May they strive and thrive. 5,000 developers…wow…

Also congrats to the investors …Allegis Capital and others

By: Bob Ackerman

Bob Ackerman — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 00:27:08 +0000

There is a reason why mega-corps with unlimited resources (people, capital and customers) keep coming to Silicon Valley to find their future in great young companies like Ribbit. The combination of risk-averse culture, size and an inability to forsee a future without them in it makes it difficult for many corporations to initiate or drive the types of disruptive change that thrives here. Start-ups – unecumbered by history – get to work with a clean piece of paper. An advantage missing in most major corporation.

The good news for us in Silicon Valley is that we are on right side of the value creation equation. This will keep the corporations coming back to Silicon Valley for their innovation. The entrepreneurs of Silicon Valley are the out-sourced R & D department of many leading corporations.

Congratulations to the Ribbit team on a big vision pursued with passion and what will hoepfully be the first of many successes.

By: Czar

Czar — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:53:33 +0000

I think that’s better for Ribbit. I wish their team good luck. They do offer great services, by the way.

By: pligg.com

pligg.com — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:24:09 +0000

BT kjøper Ribbit – Silicon Valleys første telefoni selskap…

BT (British Telecom) annonserer at selskapet kjøper Ribbit for $105. Ribbit – selværklært Silicon Vallys første telefoni selskap – sikter på å tilby platform neste generasjons taletjenester. Ribbits teknologi bygger på en software-basert switch…

By: Ryan Spahn

Ryan Spahn — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:34:14 +0000

Congratulations to the Ribbit team

By: jon bradford

jon bradford — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 19:33:27 +0000

right price 55m – wrong currency £55m (?)

By: ted

ted — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:32:48 +0000

correct, hypo glyc. Erick, this was no more than a “three bagger” unless the investors managed to own 100% of the equity…

By: alan p

alan p — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 18:00:56 +0000

Interesting play by BT, good result for Ribbit. Don’t think we’ve seen the last of the Telco 2.0 transform plays either.

Our thoughts in a lot more detail here:

http://broadstu...-Telco-2.0.html

By: Anthenor

Anthenor — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:54:11 +0000

Digitrad has its own Class 5 softswitch, a flashphone, a set of APIs and its own range of Dids. Our customers are already using the open Voice 2.0 platform and we are working to open soon the APIs on the web for all developers.

It is just the beginning of mashup applications with voice and I believe website like social networks will integrate them more and more indpendently from the technology used. It doesn’t really matter wether it is flash, silverlight or html.

By: PC

PC — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:31:34 +0000

@srw Silverlight is all hype and promise, it doesn’t even have a Microphone class; perhaps when it grows up it might actually be worth looking into. Adobe Flash may give you socket connection and voice control with a pretty UI, but you need a complete platform/backend/switch support to actually make that useful.

Ribbit seems to be a bit ahead of the other competitions. For those developers that are interested in Voice 2.0, this is great news.

Congrats to Ribbit! Looking forward to seeing great things from the team there.

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:06:44 +0000

>>especially if they are trying to create apps to displace telephone companies in general.

Please don’t write nonsense like this.