Billing itself as “Silicon Valley’s first phone company,” technology start Ribbit came out of stealth mode today, announcing a new telephony platform designed to let application developers integrate voice communications into a wide variety of software and online products—including anything that can run Flash.
“The world doesn’t need another phone company,” said Ribbit CEO and co-founder Ted Griggs, in a statement. “What it needs is new kind of phone company, one that liberates voice from its current confines—devices, plans and business models—and more readily integrates into the workflow of our professional and personal lives. We’ve been working hard these first two years to put together the right team, technology, and business model to meet this opportunity, and we’re finally ready to go to market.”
