Vonage is seeking a $2.6 billion dollar valuation in it’s IPO filing according to Reuters. Vonage Holdings Corp. may offer up to 31.25 million shares priced at between $16 and $18 a share in an initial public offering, according to a regulatory filing that started to surface on Friday. Citigroup, Deutsche Bank Securities and UBS … Read more
CompUSA now has a deal to be the retail outlet for Packet8’s small biz offering.
In what is a poential Check-Mate move over Skype and one with much deeper implications, Vonage has made a move in the UK to introduce WiFi based phone services with the Cloud. If they can successfully make this happen in the USA via the non Google, Non Earthlink WiFi cloud like communities in Cerritos, Las … Read more
Intel is adding a VoIP board to it’s motherboard along with drivers for CounterPath and Skype. While one would be tempted to think that this has to do with today, it has more to do with their long term WiMax strategy.
A few months ago I mentioned that to compete with the likes of Yahoo Skype/eBay would have to go out and cut deals with leading content suppliers. They have started to today with a deal cut with EMI that is similar in scope, but much deeper and broader than their Warner Brothers deal a few … Read more
According to my inside sources at Yahoo there is no truth to the rumor that they are in the process of working with Boingo on a combined messenger. At least not yet. I’m also hearing great news from elsewhere that the Yahoo Messenger with Phone for the Mac, something that has been long expected, and … Read more
MacNews World has a story telling how Podcasts are being delivered via cell phone. I’m very intrigued by this as content that can be streamed, shared and delivered via the mobile networks means a niche market content provider can find ways to monitize their offerings and get paid for it too.
As Earthlink rolls out more VoIP efforts they have chosen to work with Level3. Level3 always has been wanting to be the carrier’s carrier. With this signing, they continue to stay on that path.
I’m hosting a panel on Mobile VoIP at the June MuniWifi conference so I was happy to see Ted dig up a posting on Esme Vos’ most excellent site about how to do MuniWiFi right.
As a rule I tend not to blatently and overtly efuse praise for my clients and let others in the media and blogosphere do their talking for me. Call it professionalism, courtesy and respect for others and also to steer clear of hype. One of the clients of our agency, and one that I not … Read more
