In a deal with Yahoo,
Jajah will be providing its payment
processing, telephony infrastructure and customer care to Yahoo Messenger users
who want to receive and make calls to the PSTN. The $28M startup from Mountain
View reportedly has 10 million users of its VOIP since its inception in 2005. This
kind of
reminds me of the billions eBay wrote off with Skype. Google added its
new Chatback widget that allows you to put a button on your website and when
you are seen available, random people can start IM'ing you (for some people,
this can be annoying). Google recently bought
GrandCentral that allows "one phone
number for all your phones."
We can see the convergence of single number
reachability over the web and for public VOIP services. Business users can receive
calls, text or instant messages over the network straight to their device of
choice. Gtalk and Gmail have certainly reached some critical mass with recent
moves from
universities and enterprises seeking to outsource their email to
Google and bypassing Exchange or Notes altogether. Google will need some serious enterprise business development and support to attract major companies
to its SaaS platforms. The value proposition and cost models are attractive but
still some companies are uncomfortable about outsourcing some as mission
critical as their voice service.
Google blew away comScore and their forecast with
their recent earnings and shot up 83 points after hours. We might be close to "off-to-the-races" with tech
soon. Tech is usually better into the summer months so stay tuned. Apple and RIM did not disappoint either. Buy the dips and sell the
rips! At least until we are solidly above 1500 on the S&P.
In a deal with Yahoo, Jajah will be providing its payment
processing, telephony infrastructure and customer care to Yahoo Messenger users
who want to receive and make calls to the PSTN. The $28M startup from Mountain
View reportedly has 10 million users of its VOIP since its inception in 2005. This
kind of reminds me of the billions eBay wrote off with Skype. Google added its
new Chatback widget that allows you to put a button on your website and when
you are seen available, random people can start IM'ing you (for some people,
this can be annoying). Google recently bought GrandCentral that allows "one phone
number for all your phones." 
We can see the convergence of single number
reachability over the web and for public VOIP services. Business users can receive
calls, text or instant messages over the network straight to their device of
choice. Gtalk and Gmail have certainly reached some critical mass with recent
moves from universities and enterprises seeking to outsource their email to
Google and bypassing Exchange or Notes altogether. Google will need some serious enterprise business development and support to attract major companies
to its SaaS platforms. The value proposition and cost models are attractive but
still some companies are uncomfortable about outsourcing some as mission
critical as their voice service. 
Google blew away comScore and their forecast with
their recent earnings and shot up 83 points after hours. We might be close to "off-to-the-races" with tech
soon. Tech is usually better into the summer months so stay tuned. Apple and RIM did not disappoint either. Buy the dips and sell the
rips! At least until we are solidly above 1500 on the S&P.
