I’m excited to announce the launch of our new RingCentral Cloud Touch platform, the first and only phone system that enables businesses to set up, manage and use their phone system from smartphones and tablets. We’ve completely re-imagined the phone system, enabling businesses to turn any location into an office while giving employees the flexibility [...]

RingCentral’s CEO, Vlad Shmunis, describes in a recent Smart Business article how he grew RingCentral into the company it is today. Founded in 2003 by “two guys named Vlad,” RingCentral now provides cloud-based phone service to more than 200,000 customers and employs more than 500 people. Here’s the executive summary of Vlad’s strategies for growth and success: Invest in [...]

When I owned a small business in the late ’90s, the day came when a couple of analog lines and multi-line phones didn’t seem professional enough. So I had to start calling local phone-system companies. They all came out with their brochure, and pretty pictures of ugly boxes, and phones with lots of buttons to [...]

The results are in from our annual smartphone survey! We polled 300 RingCentral SMB customers about their mobile device adoption and cloud use. The key takeaway: 57% of business owners said the majority of their business-critical applications currently run in the cloud. Take a look at our infographic below for additional survey results. Many thanks [...]

Nielsen reports that almost half of U.S. mobile subscribers (49.7%, to be precise) now own smartphones. And almost half of that group (48 percent) own an Android device. In addition, a recent survey by AT&T found, 85% of small businesses have adopted smartphones, with first-time buyers favoring Android devices by a wide margin. RingCentral already offers VoIP calling for iPhones. So we’re excited to [...]