While no one would accuse Telenor of possessing a legacy carrier mentality, as they did birth Appear.In and other VoIP based properties, they like so many of their fellow telephone companies have done for years, they're outsourcing VoIP and packaging it up, as a white label play. They've gone with San Diego VoIP innovator, VoxOx. … Read more
A series of stories about Facebook and their interest in banking all basically say the same thing. That banks may be willing to share information with the social media giant. One angle I didn't see come through was the impact on Yodlee. For years, Yodlee has been a key data interchange player in the banking world. … Read more
In what may be overlooked by some as "just another acquisition" former Comunicano client (right up to the IPO) Boingo made a very shrewd buy today that gets them into the growing apartment and condominium market quickly. Long the provider of choice in airports, shopping malls and office buildings, this expands their reach into apartment … Read more
Uber, the ridesharing service has been making a ton of mistakes, but the biggest one is ignoring the most important asset they have. People. Recently they announced a deal with Cargo, to put snacks and other products on sale inside their drivers cars. There's only one problem with that. They never told the drivers. In … Read more
I read Tsahi's well thought out post about the recent TokBox acquisition. Overall I found very little to disagree with, and appreciated the candor about the global carriers in ability to execute. Let's face it. The legacy folks have been making money off of services like landline and dial tone for years. The mobile folks … Read more
Over the past few years, largely spurred on by my friendship with the Rolet family, owners of Chene Bleu, I've been making wines of the Ventoux region of the Rhone something of a regular visitor to the area, and while most of my tasting of wines from there has been either as part of dinner … Read more
With everything going on surrounding my new Pixelbook, the Vonage/Nexmo acquisition of Nexmo I almost forgot to mention being on FreeSwitch's ClueCon Weekly this past week. It's been a while since I did video, let alone remote video, but the overall conversation with Michael Mavroudis, aka Jersey Mike. We spent almost an hour talking all about … Read more
I'm on my 5th Chromebook in about 7 years or so. I don't recall exactly when I bought a long gifted away Samsung Chromebook or the next one which has also been gifted away, but you'll have to pry the latest one, the Google Pixelbook, out of my hands. I LOVE IT. After 10 months … Read more
Two days ago I pointed out that CPaaS was the next big thing in telecom. About a month ago, I shared a comment with a client that it was time to watch out for Nexmo, as they were about to make moves. Yesterday, Nexmo, backed by Vonage cash since their acquisition, bought TokBox away from … Read more
Over the past year during various conversations with telecom insiders including analysts and reporters there always seemed to be a question about CPaaS from UCaaS providers. At the present time, Twilio is likely the most commonly known CPaaS provider, quickly followed by Nexmo, which Vonage acquired. Plivo is another, and even Bandwidth.com has their own … Read more
