VoIP and social network startup Jaxtr Inc. has laid off 14 of its employees including chief executive has stepped down. Interim CEO Bahman Koohestani said former chief excutive Konstantin Guericke is stepping down to spend more time with his wife and two young daughters. However, Konstantin will remain as chairman of the company. With the [...]
Jaxtr Inc. has raised $10 million to expand its Web-based service that allow users to make less expensive long-distance calls. It’s the second round of funding for the Menlo Park-based company, and was led by Lehman Brothers Venture Partners. The round brings the company’s total raised to $20 million.
The service has registered more than 10 [...]
Internet telephony service Jactr lets you add a widget to your web site that lets visitors contact you over the phone. Now Jastr is launching a new service that routes telephone calls over the internet whether you’re taking the time to click a button on a web site or not.
Here’s how it works. When someone [...]
While it may be less widely appreciated when compared to Jajah, the Jaxtr voip widget is a polished product. Not only can you embed the Jaxtr widget in your MySpace, Friendster, Blogger, LinkedIn profile to allow friends to call for cheap, but with Jaxtr you can also send SMS and receive voice messages. Calls to [...]
Using Jaxtr basic service is free at the moment. Jaxtr may charge from premium services for jaxtr power users. With jaxtr, you will bypass expensive international mobile roaming fees. Thus, you can call friends and family in other countries at the same cost and with the same convenience as calling a friend locally.
Jaxtr main objective is to link your phone to the web so that you can hear from callers anywhere in the world while keeping your existing phone number private.
Because of this unique linking designed, you do not need a headset and has no dialers to download. Jaxtr works with any phone including landline phones.
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USA: | 1.8 c/min |
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UK: | 1.9 c/min |
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India: | 5.6 c/min |
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Poland: | 1.9 c/min |
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China: | 1.9 c/min |
