{"id":4030,"date":"2005-12-21T06:50:02","date_gmt":"2005-12-21T06:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/voip-analysis-from-forbes.html"},"modified":"2005-12-21T06:50:02","modified_gmt":"2005-12-21T06:50:02","slug":"voip-analysis-from-forbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/voip-analysis-from-forbes.html","title":{"rendered":"VoIP Analysis From Forbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-fareast-font-family: \"Times New Roman\"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA\"><font size=\"2\">Some good VoIP financial analysis from <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/equities\/2005\/12\/20\/voip-google-aol-1220markets12.html\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt\"><font size=\"2\">Forbes<\/font><\/span><\/a><font size=\"2\">. A summary of Merrill Lynch comments and more can be fount in this <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/markets\/equities\/2005\/12\/20\/voip-google-aol-1220markets12.html\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 9pt\"><font size=\"2\">article<\/font><\/span><\/a><font size=\"2\"> which I pretty much agree with. Excerpt:<\/p>\n<p><\/font><i style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal\"><font size=\"2\">After an &quot;eventful week&quot; in Voice over Internet Protocol, Merrill Lynch analyst Glen Campbell concluded &quot;we continue to believe that VoIP, particularly with the portals and Skype now competing for leadership, will separate the access and applications businesses over time.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>EBay completed the acquisition of Skype in October. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, &quot;Google launched its mobile e-mail service in the <country-region w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">U.S.<\/place><\/country-region> and entered exclusive negotiations with Time Warner for a 5% stake in AOL,&quot; the analyst said in a report. <\/p>\n<p>&quot;While there are many reasons for Google to court AOL, an important implication is that Google might pull AOL, with its huge instant-message user base, out of the Microsoft Yahoo! orbit in favor of its open-standards approach,&quot; said <city w:st=\"on\"><place w:st=\"on\">Campbell<\/place><\/city>. &quot;Communications applications (instant messaging in particular) have enormous network effects. The established portals and Skype use proprietary protocols for voice communications and have an important head start; Google is playing catch-up very aggressively, it appears,&quot; he said.<\/font><\/i><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some good VoIP financial analysis from Forbes. A summary of Merrill Lynch comments and more can be fount in this article which I pretty much agree with. Excerpt: After an &quot;eventful week&quot; in Voice over Internet Protocol, Merrill Lynch analyst Glen Campbell concluded &quot;we continue to believe that VoIP, particularly with the portals and Skype<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[568,487,283,284,233,291],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}