Business Phone Services

San Jose, United StatesHealth 71/100

8x8, Inc. is a publicly traded cloud communications company founded in 1987 by Chi-Shin Wang and Y. W. Sing, both formerly of semiconductor firm Weitek, and is headquartered in Campbell, California. The company trades on the Nasdaq under ticker EGHT and reported 1,948 employees with approximately $736 million in annual revenue for fiscal year. Current CEO Samuel Wilson leads 8x8's XCaaS (Experience Communications as a Service) platform, which combines unified communications, contact center, video meetings, and communications APIs into a single cloud service. Notable acquisitions include Jitsi (, open-source video), Wavecell (, Singapore-based CPaaS), Fuze (, unified communications), and Maven Lab (). 8x8 serves customers across the United States, United Kingdom, Romania, Australia, Singapore, and Portugal, with a particular focus on mid-market and enterprise contact centers requiring integrated voice, chat, video, and analytics in a single platform.

United StatesHealth 63/100

BuyerZone was an online B2B lead-generation and comparison-shopping platform for business products and services, including business phone systems, PBX equipment, and telecom vendors. Founded in 1992 and based in Waltham, Massachusetts, BuyerZone connected small and mid-sized businesses seeking multi-vendor quotes with participating suppliers across categories from copiers and payroll to phone systems and voice-over-IP. In January, BuyerZone was acquired by Purch, a New York-based content and commerce company operating a portfolio of B2B and consumer sites., Future US, Inc. — the U.S. subsidiary of UK-listed Future plc — acquired Purch's B2B division, which was subsequently renamed and consolidated under Business.com. BuyerZone's telephone-systems RFQ product continues to route buyer requests to phone-system vendors as part of the Business.com portfolio, though the standalone BuyerZone brand has been de-emphasized under Future's ownership.