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Skype and Google are reportedly
eroding telecoms revenue, a new
report of Analysys has concluded.
Reasons for the purported erosion
include Skype’s (and similar
services) robbing the traditional
telephony market of as much as
$18.2 billion in the year 2011.
Cisco, in its effort to increase
its share of customers, has made
25 acquisitions in the last twenty
seven month, the latest of which
is an agreement to acquire WebEx,
an on demand collaboration provider,
although sources are split on whether
it was sold for $2.9 or for $3.2
billion. WebEx itself did $380
million in revenue last year.
MACH, Portfolio Company of Warburg
Pincus and global clearing and
settlement partner for mobile-based
transactions, has an agreement
to acquire CB Holdings, Inc, the
parent company of Cibernet, which
was founded in 1988. The combined
companies expect to process more
than 25 billions messages, billing
records, and content downloads
each year.
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Skype
and Google are reportedly eroding telecoms
revenue, a new report of Analysys has
concluded.
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Vitria Technology,
Inc., a provider of business
process integration solutions,
has recently launched Business
Accelerator, “the
industry’s first open,
agnostic enterprise-class integration
suite built from the ground up
for Service-Oriented Architecture
(SOA) and Event-Driven Architecture
(EDA),” the release stated.
It builds on and complements
the legacy and B2B integration
capabilities of Vitria’s
BusinessWare® software, and
is available immediately. Vitria
is also announcing the release
of Resolution Accelerator ™ 3.0,
which “provides more capability
for SOA environments, enables
faster implementation, and increases
user productivity.” It
will be released in early April.
Tangoe, Inc. and TRAQ Wirless,
Inc. have completed a merger.
The new company will be operating
under the name Tangoe, Inc. and
will provide technology-based
software and service solutions
that “enable global organizations
to procure, manage, and control
their voice, data, and wireless
communications resources.”
Syndesis, a leader in OSS solutions,
has introduced Syndesis® IPTV
Express™, an IPTV service
fulfillment solution that manages,
using a single, unified platform, “both
IPTV service content and connectivity
across telecommunications networks.”
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