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Comprehensive VoIP overview in San Francisco Chronicle

Source: goebel.net

The San Francisco Chronicle has a nice comprehensive overview about some of the most importantVoIP companies and minute stealers:

Numbers are adding up for international callers
Internet services help to cut consumers’ phone bills
Thursday, June 21, 2007

They cover Jajah, Rebtel, Talkplus, Truphone, EQO Mobile, Mino Wireless and iSkoot. I would have liked to read also about Gizmo Project, Mobivox, Fring or Mobiboo. But then again the article appeared on page C – 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle, and paper isn’t endless.

Published on June 29th, 2007 under Object id #46

So Jajah is already worth 2.9 billion dollars

Source: goebel.net

The Swiss investment company Qino Flagship has announced that they bought more than 1 million stocks of Jajah (2,81 per cent), thus holding now nearly 8 per cent (directly and indirectly) of the internet callback service company. That’s the interesting news of today.

But what even more my interest was captured the background information: Jajah is already worth 2.9 billion dollars, calculated RRS Capital Strategies Services from Vienna yet in may after the investments by Deutsche Telekom and Intel. They deduct this virtual price from Jajah’s user data and the conditions under which Skype had been sold to Ebay in 2005. Based on that Qino’s first Jajah investment of 56.000 Euros is already worth more than 100 million Euros. I couldn’t find much information on RRS since they don’t even have a website, but just a phone number and an email address. But their numbers have been quoted on some trader websites.

Jajah plans to go public on Nasdaq next year, said founder Daniel Mattes in an interview. That’s when Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Qino and others get their money back. The company is just a year old! Skype cost Ebay 4,1 billion dollars, but at least they had an own advanced technology. Jajah instead can be copied easily.

The 2.9 billion dollars rating is quite impressive for Jajah’s rather simple internet callback service that you can also have in similar shape from companies like Nikotalk, Smart2Talk, Raketu, MINO, Webcalldirect (and all the other Betamax companies), Sitfono – and probably soon from Yahoo. Sometimes even for free, like at Peterzahlt.de.

Or you can build your own Jajah at Voxalot.

Published on June 20th, 2007 under , , , , , , , , ,

Mino Cool, RockeTalk Hotter

Source: andyabramson.blogs.com

I am looking into Mino, a way around high priced international cell phone calls if you have a data plan like Cingular’s Media Net, but Oliver Starr’s comments about RockeTalk on MobileCrunch have me beaming.

I’m now on the RockeTalk advisory board and have to admit that in all my years of new product evaluation this one has blown me away from day one. I’ve known about RockeTalk for a few months since a VC buddy asked me my opinion, then introduced me to the founder.

Oh, it works perfectly on my Nokia N70 as I expect Mino to do as well.

Published on May 10th, 2006 under

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