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| 03.06.2024 | SmallSmall Announces Date for Nigeria’s First Installment Payment Fair | In a bid to bolster the economic resilience of Nigeria’s middle class, SmallSmall is proud to announce the launch of the first installment payment Fair in Nigeria.
Scheduled to hold in Lagos on August 17, 2024, the SmallSmall Fair will show... |
| 05.10.2023 | Is the Future of Mobile Messaging and VoIP in Free Instant Platforms? | Key Takeaways:
Nimbuzz is a innovative mobile messaging and VoIP platform based in The Netherlands
The company offers low-cost mobile phone calls, free video calling, and instant messaging among other rich communication features
With a curr... |
| 29.02.2016 | Tinggal, a budget hotel network in Indonesia, lands $1M from backers of India’s Wudstay | This year it looks like budget hotel networks are a major trend for the tech industry in Southeast Asia. Already close to half a dozen startups offering standardized accommodation options have sprouted up, and today another new entrant has ... |
| 24.06.2015 | Telegram’s New Platform Lets Developers Create Smart Message Bots With Multiple Uses | A few years ago a slightly forgotten (a least in Western eyes) mobile messaging app called Nimbuzz launched little ‘chat bots’ on its platform. The bots could tell you about the weather or your horoscope. Although the platform was eventuall... |
| 25.11.2014 | India’s Nimbuzz Plans New Emerging Market Apps, Starting With Android Call App Holaa | It’s nearly one month since Nimbuzz, the mobile messaging and calling service with 200 million registered users, was bought by UK telecoms company New Call in a $250 million deal. Today we get a glimpse of what’s to come after it released i... |
| 28.10.2014 | Messaging App Nimbuzz Goes To UK’s New Call In $250M Deal | Yet more consolidation in the messaging app business: Nimbuzz, an early mover in messaging that currently has 200 million+ users with a large number of those in India, has been majority acquired by New Call. The UK-based provider of low-cos... |
| 13.08.2013 | Indian Deregulation Opens Door for Messaging App Nimbuzz To Become A Telco | While most messaging app developers are chasing each others’ fluffy white tails further and further down the rabbit hole (I’m pretty sure there’s a sticker out there that illustrates this point), India’s Nimbuzz is heading in another direct... |
| 02.06.2013 | Nimbuzz Offers Free Service To Hutch In Sri Lanka, Continues To Push Telco Strategy in Asia | Nimbuzz is continuing its push for South Asian dominance with its latest telco partnership. The Indian messaging startup just announced a tie-up with Hutch in Sri Lanka, offering six months of free Nimbuzz usage to Hutch subscribers.
Today’... |
| 01.05.2013 | Taking A Different Tack, Nimbuzz Chat Startup Partners With Pakistan Operator Mobilink | Recently we’ve seen a lot of news articles about the potential for chat apps to take over the role of SMS. Analysts Informa recently published research suggesting that 2012 was the tipping point, with nearly 19 billion messages sent globall... |
| 02.04.2013 | Nimbuzz Releases Windows Phone 8 App For A Smart Phone Push In Emerging Markets | Nimbuzz, which has become a major mobile messaging application for emerging markets like India, is making a more aggressive moves into smartphone platforms. Today it announces the release of its app for Windows Phone 8. This will take advan... |
| 15.03.2013 | Nimbuzz Hits 150M Emerging Market Users, Puts The Heat On Facebook In Asia | Free messaging apps are a dime a dozen these days. There’s everything from Viber, to Skype, to WhatsApp to GroupMe. But while these startups concentrated on smartphone apps, it has been in the emerging markets that messaging over data has m... |
| 08.07.2011 | Anonymous vows revenge after 15 arrested; AntiSec hacks continue | reader comments 122 with 73 posters participating
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After 32 raids across Italy (and one in Switzerland), 15 alleged members of Anonymous have been arrested. The detainees, a... |
| 01.02.2011 | What you need to know - 02/01/11 | 33need launches to enable microinvestments for a good cause; China censors word "Egypt" in searches
Launching today is 33needs, a new platform for companies to showcase how they’re going to change the world and raise money through... |
| 05.11.2010 | Nimbuzz 3.0 launches UI upgrades for Symbian | Nokia users will enjoy upgrade to VoIP for Nokia devices, even without Skype support
Nimbuzz launched Nimbuzz 3.0 for Symbian and Symbian^3 devices Friday, bringing a bunch of nice features to Nokia phones.
Here’s the list of newly-released... |
| 25.10.2010 | Skype cuts off mobile VoIP app Nimbuzz in prep for IPO | Skype has asked Nimbuzz, makers of a popular VoIP mobile app, to remove support for all Skype services starting October 31st.
Nimbuzz provides a mobile application for accessing multiple VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) and messaging ser... |
| 24.10.2010 | Skype Demands Mobile App Nimbuzz Remove Support, Effective October 31st | Exclusive: Nimbuzz, a popular mobile communication service provider, has been asked by Skype to remove support for all Skype services, effective October 31st.
The startup will be announcing the news to its 30 million or so registered users ... |
| 14.10.2010 | Nimbuzz clocks up 3.65 billion mobile VOIP minutes in a year | Voice over Internet protocol, or VOIP, just keeps getting bigger. The Nimbuzz mobile application integrates voice, chat and messaging from multiple providers like Skype, Microsoft and Google. The company just announced that it surpassed 3.6... |
| 30.09.2010 | Android IM apps: which one should you use? | reader comments 51 with 45 posters participating
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I'm a big fan of instant messaging apps. They're fun and easy—plus, like Google Voice, they're sometimes a money-saving alt... |
| 23.09.2010 | The 2010 Bully Award winners are… Germany and the UK top the list | The winners of the 2010 Bully Award – all thirty of them – were announced last night at the White Bull Summit 2010 in Barcelona, honouring the leading European technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) companies. Germany and the UK top... |
| 30.08.2010 | White Bull takes a snapshot of Europe's hottest tech companies | There’s a brand new tech awards in town called the Bully Award (no, it’s not for rewarding the big angry kid at school) and it’s being put together by the people behind a new European tech event organiser, White Bull Summits. Although you c... |
| 17.02.2010 | Nimbuzz Moves to Interxion to Support Rapid Growth | Interxion, a leading European operator of carrier-neutral data centres, has been selected by Nimbuzz, the mobile social VoIP and instant messaging application provider, to house its mission-critical application infrastructure. With over 20,... |
| 03.02.2010 | Nimbuzz Announces First Revenue-Generating Partnership With Largest Indonesian Operator, Telkomsel | Unique subscription-based model to revolutionise uptake of mass market mobile data services
LONDON, 03 February 2010 – Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), the multi award-winning next generation mobile messaging service, has today announced a unique... |
| 07.12.2009 | Need cheap mobile calls? Check out the top 5 mobile VoIP apps | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Mobile VoIP apps have really blossomed this year. These apps, which deliver voice calls over IP to a mobile handset over a WiFi or a ce... |
| 07.12.2009 | Need cheap mobile calls? Check out the top 5 mobile VoIP apps | Mobile VoIP apps have really blossomed this year. These apps, which deliver voice calls over IP to a mobile handset over a WiFi or a cellular network (3G, etc), let you make make cheap or free mobile calls, which can save you tons on your m... |
| 03.12.2009 | Nimbuzz Launches Groundbreaking New Social Networking App For Blackberry Smartphone Users | Innovative native application for multiple IM networks; Skype IM; online chat for Facebook & MySpace
LONDON, 03rd December 2009 – Nimbuzz (www.nimbuzz.com), the award-winning* multi-community mobile instant message application, has anno... |
| 02.12.2009 | Nimbuzz Introduces Native IM App For BlackBerry Smartphones | Mobile communication startup Nimbuzz has just made the first native application for BlackBerry smartphones that allows for multi-network chat sessions available in Research In Motion’s App World store (get it here).
The native functionality... |
| 14.11.2009 | Entrevista a Mark Tluszcz, cofundador de Mangrove Capital | 14/11/2009
ENTREVISTA A MARK TLUSZCZ, COFUNDADOR DE MANGROVE CAPITAL.
Mark Tluszcz, cofundador de la firma de venture capital Mangrove Capital Partners, pertenece a prestigiosa lista Forbes Mides de los 100 principales empresarios del sec... |
| 09.11.2009 | Nimbuzz launches low-cost international calling! | Introducing NimbuzzOut
LONDON, 09th NOVEMBER 2009 - Nimbuzz, the new-generation mobile VoIP operator, has today announced the launch of NimbuzzOut, offering great value international calls at the lowest possible rates, to complement its mul... |
| 25.10.2009 | imo.im Quietly Building One Solid Multi-Network Instant Messaging App | When I first covered imo.im back in February, I wrote it was one of the best Web apps for instant messaging you’d likely never heard of, and chances are you’ve forgotten all about it since then. To be honest, so had I, but the team got in t... |
| 30.07.2009 | Nimbuzz Releases App For Android, And Research Into Our IM Habits | Dutch startup Nimbuzz , which bills itself as the “mobile Skype” today releases an IM application for Android phones which ties together multiple messaging tools (Skype, MSM, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, etc.) via a single interface. The Nimbuz... |
| 30.07.2009 | Nimbuzz releases app for Android and research into use of IM | Dutch startup Nimbuzz , which bills itself as the “mobile Skype” have just announced an IM application for Android phones which ties together multiple messaging tools (Skype, MSM, Yahoo, ICQ, Google Talk, etc.) via a single interface. The a... |
| 15.07.2009 | Nimbuzz Releases Mac Desktop Client, iPhone App Updates | In a move that will appeal to many of its Apple-loving users, Nimbuzz has simultaneously launched an updated iPhone / iPod Touch application and a shiny new desktop client for Macs. The company offers a social messenger service that lets pe... |
| 08.07.2009 | eBuddy for iPhone joins the push-notification bandwagon | Until now in Apple’s App Store, an all-in-one IM client with push notification was something you had to pay for, but eBuddy‘s changing that.
The app is the first free all-in-one IM client to notify users of incoming chats, even when the pro... |
| 07.07.2009 | Europas nominee Mobypicture expands to UK, Germany | Mobypicture may be one of the few startups in the world headquartered on an Amsterdam houseboat but it is one of many jostling for position in the crowded world of mobile image/video/audio sharing services.The company is one of several Dutc... |
| 05.06.2009 | Fring man jumps ship to rival Nimbuzz | Back in April Fring, the Israel-based mobile call and chat application provider, closed a Series C round of financing, estimated to be around £10, on top of the $13 million it had raised since its inception in 2006. So in other words they h... |
| 14.05.2009 | eBuddy, The Swiss Army Knife For Instant Messaging, Is Now Available On Android | The Netherlands-based eBuddy, which markets a comprehensive application that lets users handle multiple instant messaging accounts from the web or their mobile phones, is today releasing an application for the Android platform a couple mont... |
| 07.04.2009 | Canadians say they're still calling despite Skype iPhone block | Article content
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| 19.03.2009 | Nimbuzz Pushes New iPhone VoIP App, Supports Calling Over 3G | Nimbuzz is launching a brand new VoIP application for the iPhone / iPod Touch today, making it one of the most comprehensive communication tools for the platform available today. It took several weeks for the Dutch startup to get the app ap... |
| 12.03.2009 | Vyke Forms Strategic Partnership for Mobile VoIP with Nimbuzz | Vyke today announced it has formed a strategic partnership with Nimbuzz, the Netherlands based provider of mobile social networking and interactivity applications.
This strategic partnership builds upon the component strengths of both Vyke ... |
| 06.02.2009 | IMO.IM Is The Best IM Web Service You've Never Heard Of | With all the talk about Meebo adding support for Facebook chat yesterday, I took notice of a message in our tips inbox today about another instant messaging aggregator service that I’d never heard of before adding support for Skype chat. IM... |
| 06.01.2009 | Truphone Guns For The All-in-one iPhone App – Adds Skype, Twitter And Other IM | With the launch of Skype integration, Truphone’s mobile VoIP service is fast becoming a unified client for other VOIP and messaging services. As well as the ability to make low-cost calls over Wi-Fi or GSM networks and send cheap SMS, it is... |
| 06.01.2009 | Skype me! – Truphone adds Skype to iPhone | With the launch of Skype integration, Truphone’s mobile VoIP service is fast becoming a unified client for other VOIP and messaging services. As well as the ability to make low-cost calls over Wi-Fi or GSM networks and send cheap SMS, it is... |
| 10.12.2008 | Le Web Has A Room With A Viewdle – Startup Winners Picked | Le Web, a key event for Europe’s traveling circus of startup communities, ran a pitch competition alongside the main track again this year. It attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wide range of sectors and thi... |
| 27.11.2008 | Nimbuzz IM for the iPhone: Friendly to Fat Fingers | One of the common complaints about the Apple iPhone – beyond the inability to cut and paste – has been that such a powerful communications platform is sorely lacking in one particular respect: instant messaging.
But Apple’s shortcoming in t... |
| 11.11.2008 | Nimbuzz Strikes Major Distribution Deal With StudiVZ, Germany's Largest Social Network | Holland-based IM and VoIP services provider Nimbuzz has just announced a noteworthy strategic partnership with StudiVZ, the largest social networking site in Germany famous worldwide for sporting a look closely resembling Facebook, which tr... |
| 11.11.2008 | Startups to pitch at Le Web in Paris | Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s regular startup competition – run alongside the conference itself – has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wid... |
| 10.11.2008 | Startups selected for Le Web in Paris | Europe’s biggest annual event for the tech industry is looming once more, and this year Le Web’s regular startup competition – run alongside the conference itself – has attracted 30 companies from Europe, and a few from the US, across a wid... |
| 29.10.2008 | The Race To Be The Mobile IM Aggregator Of Choice | If instant messaging, and now mobile IM is a commodity market, then UK-based mobile startup Trutap has decided to try and become the aggregator of choice for the mainstream consumer. The TechCrunch40 finalist from 2007 now supports a host o... |
| 29.10.2008 | Trutap races to be the mobile IM aggregator of choice | If instant messaging, and now mobile IM is a commodity market, then UK-based mobile startup Trutap has decided to try and become the aggregator of choice for the mainstream consumer. The TechCrunch40 finalist from 2007 now supports a host o... |
| 03.07.2008 | Europe's Mobile 2.0 startups come together | Europe is a hotbed of mobile startups right now, so appropriately enough the Mobile 2.0 event which started in San Francisco is putting on a one-day international event tomorrow in Barcelona which focuses on mobile startups, dubbed Mobile 2... |
| 01.07.2008 | Nimbuzz raises $15 million in second round | Word has reached me that Netherlands-based Nimbuzz, the mobile VoIP and IM startup that extends into social networks, has raised $15 million in a second round led by Naspers/MIH, with Nimbuzz’s other major existing investor Mangrove Capital... |
| 01.07.2008 | European Mobile VoIP Startup Nimbuzz Raises $15 Million | Mike Butcher at TechCrunch UK reports:
Word has reached me that Netherlands-based Nimbuzz, the mobile VoIP and IM startup that extends into social networks, has raised $15 million in a second round led by Naspers/MIH, with Nimbuzz’s other m... |
| 12.05.2008 | Nimbuzz – VOIP/IM aimed at mobile and social networks | Back in early 2007 Netherlands-based Nimbuzz launched a beta for its free application which supported voice, presence, and SMS. TechCrunch UK reports that Tuesday will see it aim squarely at mobile handsets and social networks, launching wi... |
| 12.05.2008 | Nimbuzz aims at mobile and social networks to turn the screw on Skype | We last wrote about Nimbuzz in early 2007. Then it was a free application which supported voice, presence, conference calls, and SMS messaging between mobile devices, PC’s, and mobile to PC or PC to mobile. Founded in 2006 and run out of th... |
| 26.12.2007 | Fring: Cross Platform Mobile IM | Israeli mobile startup Fring is a great way to use Skype, Google Talk and MSN Messenger IM on your phone. This weekend the company added AIM and Yahoo messenger to its offerings for Symbian and UIQ handsets.
Fring is a finalist in the Crunc... |
| 17.09.2007 | Trutap takes on Bluepulse — to be mobile social network | Trutap, the latest company wanting to give the world’s teenagers access to their lives on mobile phones, will launch Friday.
Its features may sound familiar: The London company has built a downloadable mobile application that works in more ... |
| 16.01.2007 | Nimbuzz Talk Launches, Connects Mobiles and PCs | MobileCrunch has announced the beta release of Nimbuzz Talk, a mobile/PC app that connects cellphone and PC users. The application supports voice, presence, conference calls, and SMS messaging between mobile devices, PC’s, and mobile to PC ... |
| 22.08.2006 | Nimbuzz releases full featured mobile communication software | Oliver over at MobileCrunch posted exclusive coverage this morning of a new free service called Nimbuzz that he believes could really shake up the mobile world. Users can IM with MSN and GoogleTalk users in individual and group chats, send ... |
| - | Vídeo: entrevista exclusiva com o CEO e o Diretor Geral da Techstars | No ano passado tive o prazer de conseguir (após 4 meses de espera) uma hora da agenda do CEO da Techstars, David Cohen e do Tom Keller, o Diretor Geral do programa.
A Techstars é o programa Número 1 de seed investment nos Estados Unidos. Em... |
| - | UK Based New Call Telecom Acquires 70% Stake In Nimbuzz For $ 175 Mn | UK-based Internet service provider, New Call Telecom, has acquired a 70% stake in Gurgaon headquartered Nimbuzz for about $175 Mn, the deal is said to be more than eight times its expected revenue for this fiscal year, according to ET.
Howe... |
