Twilio has joined the Google Cloud Platform Partner Program, making them the first provider of an API through which Google’s community of developers can integrate SMS text messaging and voice calling into their applications.
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Update: Twilio’s Deal with Ma Bell – Creative Disruption in Action
You know that Joseph Schumpeter’s “creative destruction” has begun in earnest when a prototypical disruptor, like Twilio, transforms one of the largest mobile carriers, AT&T Mobility, into a reseller of its services.
$17 Million Series C Financing Vote of Confidence in Twilio and “Conversations as a Platform”
Two of its three Series B investors our upping their ante in Twilio, providing cash to fuel the three-year-old company’s international expansion and growth in support of a community of telco application developers.
Twilio Positioning SMS as a Pre-API for Siri Development Efforts
Twilio is encouraging developers to come up with interesting new applications for the iPhone 4S using the Twilio platform for SMS as a quasi-API.
News From Twilio Conference: Carving up $250 Billion Telecom-based Opportunity
Twilio’s CEO Jeff Lawson kicked off a two day get-together for phone-app developers interested in using his company’s resources to bring new services to market.
Twilio Brings Contact Center Functionality to ZenDesk
Thanks to an agreement with Twilio, Web-based Help Desk service provider ZenDesk now offers its customers pay-as-you-go access to a”cloud-based” contact center for 5 cents per minute.
Apigee Provides Developers With a “Console” for Twilio API
The growth of RC (Recombinant Communications) is predicated largely on efforts by various businesses to make Telco APIs easily accessible to and usable by large numbers of developers.
$12 Million Investment For Twilio Signals Great Expectations for Telco API
I’m deep into writing a research report on the growing popularity of Telco APIs, but I have to take note of the $12 million in Series B funding that Twilio received…