BT and Ribbit

The news is buzzing around the web about the recent purchase of Ribbit by BT.

ZDNet (Ryan Stewart): Now, with the acquisition, they’re going to become a major player. They have BT’s infrastructure and money behind them so they can scale, reach new customers, and offer more services. [Read the full article here ]

TechCrunch: [ Ribbit is a platform for creating voice-based applications over the Internet. BT will now be able to run those applications over its backbone network at a lower cost than Ribbit was able to lease those lines .. ] Read the full article here

C|Net: [ Ribbit’s software allows developers to integrate voice features to Web applications, such as Salesforce.com, Facebook, and the iPhone. In the coming weeks, BT will integrate Ribbit with its 21CN network. ] Read the full article here

ReadWriteWeb : [ Michael Boustridge, President, BT Americas said in the release about the deal: “The Ribbit platform makes it simpler, cheaper and faster to build communications functionality into applications, enabling developers to introduce new revenue-generating voice services in hours,. ] Read the full article here

Mashable: [ Chuck Freedman, director of the developer platform at Ribbit, hopes that the developer community will be excited about “what BT brings to Ribbit.” They can “continue developing their existing applications and add new features for the creation of Flash or AIR desktop applications, or Google Desktop widgets that allow others to call you directly, and have your voicemails transcribed and delivered to your email or mobile device via SMS,” said Freedman. ] Read the full article here

OnFlex (Ted Patrick): [ Ribbit has done an amazing job leveraging the existing API’s. With the acquisition by BT, they are now going global.] Read full article

InsideRIA (Andre Charland): [ Big news for one of the shining lights in the VOIP, Flex and AIR world. Ribbit was acquired by BT. The purchase price was $105 Million. It seem like BT was interested in not only the technology but the platform and community that Ribbit has created. ] Read the full article here

SFGate: [ Seems the two companies were among the forerunners in this new telecom space, where voice is treated as a feature to be integrated into other applications. BT also has been looking down this road, opening its core processes to developers through a software developer kit. ] Read the full article here

Demo: [ “Silicon Valley is emerging as a hotbed of telecommunications innovation,” said JP Rangaswami, managing director of service design at BT. “With Ribbit, not only do we extend our presence in the valley, but we also gain a groundbreaking platform, a growing community of developers,.” ] Read the full article here

International Business Times: [ Ribbit’s platform allows for Web browser-based phone calls. It can turn voicemail into text files, which are searchable. Developers have also integrated voice features into salesforce.com using Ribbit, and have built voice applications that run directly from Facebook or iGoogle. ] Read full article

Check out this great video of Ryan Stewart interviewing Ribbit’s Chuck Freedman.