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Nokia Buys Social Media Site Twango For About $100 Million; Porting To Mobile

Twango, a small social media site based in Redmond, WA (which we have been using to upload and share the audio interviews we do here), has been bought by Nokia, for a reported sum of about $96.8 million, WSJ reports. The site allows users to share online audio, video, text, photos and other kinds of files, an all-in-one file sharing service. It was founded in 2004 by five former Microsoft senior managers and has 10 employees. Nokia is likely to rebrand the Twango service and incorporate software into its phones to ease sending content between phones and online.

This is Nokia’s third digital media related acquisition in the last year since Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo took charge: digital-music distributor Loudeye for $60 million and a small German navigation-software company called gate5 for an undisclosed price. Nokia has existing media sharing tieups with Flickr and SixApart’s Vox,, but it plans to continue these relationships in order to provide choice for customers.

Jul 23, 2007 7:56 PM ET

Posted In: Mobile, Social Media

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Jul 24, 2007 12:37 PM

Nokia is about to release its own media portal, called “Mosh”. It is still in its alpha release and not public but from the screenshots I have seen elsewhere on the Web, it looks pretty much the same.
The funny part is that “Mosh” means phonetically “ugly” in French.

Christophe

Jul 25, 2007 12:03 AM

Which is exactly what ShoZu do also…

Scott

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