BT has acquired telephony software company Ribbit in a $105m (£53m) cash deal, pitting the telecoms giant against Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android software development kits.
Ribbit’s Amphibian open platform allows developers to integrate various voicemail, speech-to-text and other telephony features into Web 2.0 applications, including social networking sites.
The company also offers a voice-to-text software add-on for the Salesforce.com on-demand customer relationship management application.
Ribbit is a private company founded in 2006 by venture capitalist firms.
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