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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 messaging and voicemail transcription into the search engine’s new, much-hyped… Continue Reading

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 Salesforce, the most exciting part of its technology is the… Continue Reading

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 time, the company’s spokesman Don Thorson adamantly denied that… Continue Reading

Source: Ribbit, “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” bought by BT [Updated: Confirmed]

Updated with a response from the company.

Ribbit, a company that has styled itself “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” has been purchased by BT, the dominant British telecommunications company, we’re hearing.

[Update: A company spokesperson has gotten back to us denying that there’s been an acquisition. However,… Continue Reading

BT invests in WiFi community start-up, FON

UK’s phone giant BT has invested in the WiFi router start-up FON, in an effort to cover the UK with what they proclaim will be the “world’s largest WiFi community.”

BT has more than 3 million broadband customers. Under the deal, BT will “invite” customers to… Continue Reading

BT to mesh with FON?

BT, the giant UK carrier, is on the verge of wrapping up a deal with the Spanish start-up FON, which will let BT customers make cheap calls on FON WiFi hotspots.

Reports about the talks surfaced here (and this story has good details), and a source… Continue Reading