{"id":1562,"date":"2008-07-09T05:53:02","date_gmt":"2008-07-09T09:53:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.voipsupply.com\/?p=1562"},"modified":"2016-12-20T16:58:21","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T21:58:21","slug":"ribbit-jumps-on-bt-acquisition-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/ribbit-jumps-on-bt-acquisition-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Ribbit Jumps on BT Acquisition Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ribbit.com\/images\/home\/ribbit_logo_small_wtag.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2008\/07\/09\/bt-has-acquired-ribbit-for-55-million-to-build-grandcentral-competitor-say-ribbit-execs-to-friends\/\">Techcrunch<\/a> reports that Mountain View, CA voice 2.0 platform company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbit.com\">Ribbit<\/a> has been acquired by British Telecom (BT) for a modest $55 million.<\/p>\n<p>Ribbit&#8217;s main service offering is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ribbit.com\/everyday\/tour\/enhanced_visual_voicemail.php\">Amphibian<\/a>, and offers a variety of personal call management features with web + mobile + social network integration.<\/p>\n<p>Ribbit also spawned an API and corresponding developer platform and offered an open and freely downloadable version of their Ribbit API, which uses Flash via Adobe Flex Builder.<\/p>\n<p>Ribbit aimed to create an \u201ciTunes\u201d-like ecosystem with their Ribbit Store, the idea being to allow developers to distribute and monetize applications built using the Ribbit API.<\/p>\n<p>Ribbit showcased several clever applications built using AIR and their Ribbit API. One application emulates the look, feel and some of the functionality of the Apple iPhone, the other is a very artistic take on the softphone called ChalkboardPhone.<\/p>\n<p>BT is reportedly looking to leverage Ribbit to compete with Grandcentral, which was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techcrunch.com\/2007\/06\/24\/google-to-acquire-grand-central-for-50-million\/\">bought by Google<\/a> just over a year ago for a similar price.  The Google\/Grandcentral acquisition likely served as a valuation benchmark for Ribbit.  Congratulations to co-founders Ted Griggs, Crick Waters and Peter Leong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Techcrunch reports that Mountain View, CA voice 2.0 platform company Ribbit has been acquired by British Telecom (BT) for a modest $55 million. Ribbit&#8217;s main service offering is called Amphibian, and offers a variety of personal call management features with web + mobile + social network integration. Ribbit also spawned an API and corresponding developer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1217,1226],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-voip-news","category-voip-service"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":224843,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1562\/revisions\/224843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.voipsupply.com\/blog\/voip-insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}