#16: RingCentral Considering 8×8 Takeover?
8×8’s contact-center-as-a-service offering might be quite attractive to its rival, RingCentral.
What would be a blockbuster deal might be nothing more than speculation, but a source told Investing.com last month that RingCentral is working with an investment bank to evaluate such a transaction.
Blair Pleasant, president and principal analyst of COMMfusion, told Channel Futures that acquiring 8×8 would give it its own CCaaS offering, as well as communications platform as a service (CPaaS). A pretty nice incentive.
Read about this speculation that has made our countdown two months in a row.
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