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Integrated Information Technology
8x8 Inc. is an American provider of Voice over IP products. Its products include cloud-based voice, contact center, video, mobile and unified communications for businesses. Since 2018, 8x8 manages Jitsi. History The company was founded in 1987 by Chi-Shin Wang and Y. W. Sing formerly of Weitek as Integrated Information Technology, Inc., or IIT. The name was changed in the mid-1990s. According to the company, IIT began as an integrated circuit designer. The company produced math coprocessors for x86 microprocessors, as well as Graphics accelerator cards for the personal computer market during the late 1980s. The company later changed its name to 8x8, and began producing products for the videoconferencing market. 8x8 went public on the NASDAQ market in 1997. The company moved their trading to NYSE in 2017, under the ticker symbol EGHT. In 1999, 8x8 acquired two companies, Odisei and U, Force, to acquire network and server VoIP technologies. In March 2000, 8x8 relaunched itself ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Company
A public company is a company whose ownership is organized via shares of stock which are intended to be freely traded on a stock exchange or in over-the-counter markets. A public (publicly traded) company can be listed on a stock exchange (listed company), which facilitates the trade of shares, or not (unlisted public company). In some jurisdictions, public companies over a certain size must be listed on an exchange. In most cases, public companies are ''private'' enterprises in the ''private'' sector, and "public" emphasizes their reporting and trading on the public markets. Public companies are formed within the legal systems of particular states, and therefore have associations and formal designations which are distinct and separate in the polity in which they reside. In the United States, for example, a public company is usually a type of corporation (though a corporation need not be a public company), in the United Kingdom it is usually a public limited company (plc), i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nasdaq
The Nasdaq Stock Market () (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations Stock Market) is an American stock exchange based in New York City. It is the most active stock trading venue in the US by volume, and ranked second on the list of stock exchanges by market capitalization of shares traded, behind the New York Stock Exchange. The exchange platform is owned by Nasdaq, Inc., which also owns the Nasdaq Nordic stock market network and several U.S.-based stock and options exchanges. History 1971–2000 "Nasdaq" was initially an acronym for the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations. It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). On February 8, 1971, the Nasdaq stock market began operations as the world's first electronic stock market. At first, it was merely a "quotation system" and did not provide a way to perform electronic trade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bandwidth (company)
Bandwidth is a communications platform as a service company. They sell software application programming interfaces (or APIs) for voice and messaging, using their own IP voice network. History Bandwidth was formed in 1999 by David Morken who was later joined by Henry Kaestner as co-founder in 2001, merging Bandwidth International into Bandwidth.com. Bandwidth moved to Centennial Campus of North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina in 2012. Bandwidth announced in 2020 a plan to move its corporate headquarters to 2021 Edwards Mill Road in Raleigh. The proposed campus is slated to include two five-story buildings, covering 450,000 square feet, and later an additional 350,000 square foot phase. Bandwidth also stated an intent to hire for some 1,000 new positions at the time of the announcement. As of December 31, 2018, Bandwidth maintains a workforce of 700+ employees. On November 10, 2017, the company had an initial public offering on the NASDAQ which raised $80 mill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nextiva
Nextiva is a voice-over-internet-protocol (VoIP) company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Nextiva focuses on the area of cloud-based communication Nextiva indicates its telephone and other technology services are currently used by 150,000 businesses. History Nextiva was founded in 2006. Six years later, Nextiva had approximately one hundred and twenty workers. In 2014 Nextiva's growth rate, according to Deloitte, was estimated to be 1548%. By June 2016, Nextiva's revenue was close to $100 million. In January, 2017 they had sales of $110 million and a staff of 700. As of 2020, Nextiva had a revenue of $200 million. Product line Nextiva produces a unified communication platform called NextOS. The access to the platform is provided by subscription. NextOS is available as the desktop application in WindowsOS and MacOS, as well as mobile application for Android and iOS. NextOS renders the services of cloud-based communication, CRM, videoconferencing, mail service, analytics, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
RingCentral
RingCentral, Inc. is an American publicly traded provider of cloud-based communication and collaboration products and services for businesses. CEO Vlad Shmunis and CTO Vlad Vendrow founded the company in 1999. Investors included Doug Leone, Sequoia Capital, David Weiden, Khosla Ventures, Rob Theis, Scale Venture Partners, Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, Hermes Growth Partners and DAG Ventures. It completed its IPO in 2013. History RingCentral founders Shmunis and Vendrow previously worked together at RingZero Systems, where Shmunis was founder/CEO and Vendrow was director of engineering. RingZero was focused on small business communications on Microsoft Windows. The company was sold to Motorola for "double-digit millions". After Motorola changed the focus exclusively on mobile platforms, Shmunis and Vendrow founded RingCentral. RingCentral was bootstrapped from 1999 until it received its first round of venture capital investment in 2006. In 2011, it added Cisco and Silicon Valley Bank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vonage
Vonage (, legal name Vonage Holdings Corp.) is an American cloud communications provider operating as a subsidiary of Ericsson. Headquartered in Holmdel Township, New Jersey, the organization was founded in 1998 as ''Min-X'' as a provider of residential telecommunications services based on voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP). In 2001, the organization changed its name to Vonage. As of 2020, Vonage reported consolidated revenues of $1.25 billion. Through a series of acquisitions beginning in 2013, Vonage, previously a consumer-focused service provider, has expanded its presence in the business-to-business marketplace, while still keeping its home VOIP service. Vonage's offering includes unified communications, contact center applications and communications APIs. In July 2022, Ericsson completed its acquisition of Vonage for $6.2 billion. History Min-X.com was founded by Jeff Pulver in 1998 as a Voice over IP (VOIP) exchange. He recruited Jeffrey A. Citron and Carlos Bhola, who e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charter Communications
Charter Communications, Inc., is an American telecommunications and mass media company with services branded as Spectrum. With over 32 million customers in 41 states, it is the second-largest cable operator in the United States by subscribers, just behind Comcast, and the third-largest pay TV operator behind Comcast and AT&T. Charter is the fifth-largest telephone provider based on number of residential lines. In late 2012, with longtime Cablevision executive Thomas Rutledge named as their CEO, Charter relocated its corporate headquarters from St. Louis, Missouri, to Stamford, Connecticut, though kept many of its operations in St. Louis. On May 18, 2016, Charter finalized acquisition of Time Warner Cable and its sister company Bright House Networks, making it the third-largest pay television service in the United States. Charter ranked No. 70 in the 2019 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. History 1980–1998: Beginnings Charter Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
WebRTC
WebRTC (Web Real-Time Communication) is a free and open-source project providing web browsers and mobile applications with real-time communication (RTC) via application programming interfaces (APIs). It allows audio and video communication to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication, eliminating the need to install plugins or download native apps. Supported by Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera, WebRTC specifications have been published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). According to the webrtc.org website, the purpose of the project is to "enable rich, high-quality RTC applications to be developed for the browser, mobile platforms, and IoT devices, and allow them all to communicate via a common set of protocols". History In May 2010, Google bought Global IP Solutions or GIPS, a VoIP and videoconferencing software company that had developed many components required for RTC, such as codec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atlassian
Atlassian Corporation () is an Australian software company that develops products for software developers, project managers and other software development teams. The company is domiciled in Delaware, with global headquarters in Sydney, Australia, and US headquarters in San Francisco. In the fourth fiscal quarter of 2022, Atlassian reported serving 242,623 customers in over 190 countries, with 10 million monthly active users. As of June 2022, the company had 8,813 employees internationally. Atlassian has a global team across 13 different countries; office locations include Amsterdam, Austin, Boston, New York, San Francisco, Mountain View, Manila, Yokohama, Bangalore, and Sydney. History Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar founded Atlassian in 2002. The pair met while studying at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. They bootstrapped the company for several years, financing the startup with a $10,000 credit card debt. The name is an ''ad hoc'' derivation from the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cloud Services
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage (cloud storage) and computing power, without direct active management by the user. Large clouds often have functions distributed computing, distributed over multiple locations, each of which is a data center. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and typically uses a "pay as you go" model, which can help in reducing capital expenses but may also lead to unexpected operating expenses for users. Value proposition Advocates of public and hybrid clouds claim that cloud computing allows companies to avoid or minimize up-front IT infrastructure costs. Proponents also claim that cloud computing allows Company, enterprises to get their Application software, applications up and running faster, with improved manageability and less maintenance, and that it enables IT teams to more rapidly adjust resources to meet fluctuating and unpredictable demand, provi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jitsi Meet
Jitsi is a collection of free and open-source multiplatform voice (VoIP), video conferencing and instant messaging applications for the web platform, Windows, Linux, macOS, iOS and Android. The Jitsi project began with the Jitsi Desktop (previously known as SIP Communicator). With the growth of WebRTC, the project team focus shifted to the Jitsi Videobridge for allowing web-based multi-party video calling. Later the team added Jitsi Meet, a full video conferencing application that includes web, Android, and iOS clients. Jitsi also operates meet.jit.si, a version of Jitsi Meet hosted by Jitsi for free community use. Other projects include: Jigasi, lib-jitsi-meet, Jidesha, and Jitsi. Jitsi has received support from various institutions such as the NLnet Foundation, the University of Strasbourg and the Region of Alsace, the European Commission and it has also had multiple participations in the Google Summer of Code program. History Work on Jitsi (then SIP Communicator) started in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
