Congrats to JAJAH and Yahoo!

April 29th, 2008 by Don Thorson | located in Uncategorized | trackback

Ribbit sends big congratulations to JAJAH, our neighbors here in Mountain View, and also to Yahoo! for the announcement they shared this morning: that they will be working together to bring next generation voice to Yahoo!’s 97 million Yahoo! Messenger users.

This is a big win for both companies because it lets Yahoo! deliver voice through JAJAH’s robust global infrastructure, and because JAJAH gets the traffic and revenue associated with phone termination and use.

The larger implication, and what excites us at Ribbit most, is that this is another indication of how the business and technology of voice is rapidly morphing as phones and computers come together. We’ve all been watching the local Silicon Valley announcements—everything from Google’s Android to the Apple iPhone, and beyond. Now, this JAJAH/Yahoo! news is yet another piece of evidence that the future of voice is arriving, real time, sooner than we might have thought.

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One Response to “Congrats to JAJAH and Yahoo!”

1. Frederik Hermann Says:
   May 6th, 2008 at 7:28 pm

   Thanks a lot for the post and support. We are very happy about this deal and the immanent implications for our industry and IP telecommunications. Great stuff coming up, good luck to Ribbit and the great innovations coming. Best, Frederik