Comments on: Was Ribbit Sold? Maybe, Maybe Not http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:07:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: BT Buys Ribbit for $105 Million - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206585 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:28:42 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206585 [...] acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first emerged on Venturebeat, though company officials vociferously denied any deal. Our sources [...]

]]> By: British Telecom Buys Ribbit - GigaOM http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206584 Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:11:04 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206584 [...] acquired Silicon Valley-based Ribbit for roughly $105 million, according to various news outlets. Rumors of the deal first emerged on Venturebeat, though company officials vociferously denied any deal. Our sources [...]

]]> By: jack http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206583 Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:58:16 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206583 I thought Numbr (www.numbr.com) is heading in the same direction with ATT. We might see carriers shift their strategy to stay competitive going forward.

]]> By: Ribbet Bought? Maybe yes, maybe no | The VoIP Mag http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206582 Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:58:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206582 [...] For more:- VentureBeat breaks BT and Ribbit deal, updates with a “Don’t know.”- GigaOm follows up on BT Ribbit deal [...]

]]> By: Adam http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206581 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 21:21:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206581 Yes, I think “Google buys JaJah” is the more realistic scenario.

btw: Didn’t jajah’s comms guy go to Ribbit? Shame he jumped ship for $55m when he could have stayed with a billion dollar company

]]> By: Tyler http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206580 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 20:25:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206580 What’s up with this??? Google and jajah? http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/09/bt-has-acquired-ribbit-for-55-million-to-build-grandcentral-competitor-say-ribbit-execs-to-friends/#comment-2403270

]]> By: Jason M. Lemkin http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206579 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 19:17:39 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206579 Om – you can get a very rough sense of usage on Salesforce/AppExchange by sorting by Installs in a category: http://www.salesforce.com/appexchange/category_list.jsp?NavCode__c=a0130000006P6IoAAK-c

You can see Ribbit is #3 of 18 in mobile – #2 if you exclude Salesforce’s won Salesforce Mobile, and it launched much later and the installs are cumulative over time.

So you can guess Ribbit has done reasonably well on AppExchange. It’s a nice app.

]]> By: IS2B » Blog Archive » BT Has Acquired Ribbit For $55 Million To Build GrandCentral Competitor, Say Ribbit Execs To Friends http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206578 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 15:53:17 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206578 [...] 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 merger discussions were occurring or not. [...]

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206577 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:57:48 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206577 @Martyn

I am not even sure why BT would be interested in this – sure it has developers but Ribbit doesn’t have any real traction when it comes to apps. They have a Salesforce integration app but I am not sure how many people are actually using it, and there is no way to verify it. No independent sources on that information.

Hopefully, if the deal happens we will have a clear idea on why BT wants this and if they can actually put it to work.

]]> By: Om Malik http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206576 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 13:55:02 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206576 @Omfut

I wish I could tell you about BT 21 CN. Lots of talk early on, but the project is clearly lagging and things are slow to put it mildly. I think BT had big ideas but execution turned out to be a bitch.

]]> By: Martyn Davies http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206575 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:14:32 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206575 The BT platform’s still there (web21c.bt.com). Ribbit seems to be mainly an Adobe Flex component that allows voice functions to be added to a browser, and a back-end switch for the call processing. It’s an adjacent space to what BT have, and could be complementary.

]]> By: BT Has Acquired Ribbit For $55 Million To Build GrandCentral Competitor, Say Ribbit Execs To Friends http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206574 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 08:04:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206574 [...] 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 merger discussions were occurring or not. [...]

]]> By: Digital Signage http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206573 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:28:07 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206573 It’ll be interesting to see what happens. My dad worked for MCI for over 25 years. As a result, he went through the near BT acquisition and finally the dreadful WorldCom deal. We all should know how that went down.

]]> By: omfut http://gigaom.com/2008/07/08/ribbit-sold/#comment-206572 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 06:02:09 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=14084#comment-206572 Om,
What happened to BT’s own 21CN platform that enabled developers to build voice and messaging application. Not sure if ribbit is gone fill the gaps in 21CN platform or is there something else that BT is interested in?

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