Posts Tagged with ‘internet-telephony’

Of course it is less frequently that we report funding news these days but that only makes funding announcements that still happen more newsworthy to us. Today’s announcement is Ifbyphone’s new round of $4.6 million in venture funding.
The funding comes from five VC firms: Apex Venture Partners and Origin Ventures that led this round after investing in Ifbyphone’s first round of institutional funding along with Spring Mill Venture Partners, i2A and Blue Crest Capital Finance.
Ifbyphone serves as a platform for [...]

If you weren’t convinced by our last piece on Vonage that the VoIP company is headed down, down, down, maybe this next bit of news will bring you around and help you see the truth. Just hours (okay, days) after Vonage was told to pay Sprint for stepping on the latter party’s patents, the press revealed that the small-fry pariah of the US telecom industry had also managed to lose out its appeal of the judgment concerning its very public [...]