blog for mobile: Nimbuzz

Nimbuzz is a mobile social messenger, combining instant messaging, (geo) presence, and VoIP. The free application is available on the mobile, PC and Web, for instant messaging, location sharing, (group) calling, (group) chat, and file sharing across popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger (MSN), Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, Google Talk, AIM, GaduGadu, Jabber and Twitter, plus 23 social networks including Facebook and MySpace[1].

Nimbuzz was founded in 2006 by Evert Jaap Lugt and Martin Smink.

* In the 1st round of funding the company received an investment of US $10 million from Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype), MIH Group(QQ, Mail.ru, GaduGadu) and Holtzbrinck Ventures (StudiVZ, Kyte) on May 19, 2007.[2]
* In the 2nd round of investment Nimbuzz received an investment of US $15 million from Nasper/MIH on June 1, 2008. [3]

Nimbuzz has its headquarters in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and has offices in São Paulo - Brazil, Córdoba - Argentina and New Delhi – India.

The company has users in every country of the planet (200 countries) and it is the only mobile social messaging aggregator to ever win the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 award. Nimbuzz also won the Converged Solution category in the 2009 Mobile News Awards.

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Nimbuzz Web/Wap

Nimbuzz Web/WAP is accessible via any internet browser on the PC (web) or mobile phone (wap) and allows users to connect to the application without downloading the software. This is an alternative for all Mac and Linux users. To login to the Nimbuzz Web (www.nimbuzz.com) and WAP visit (www.m.nimbuzz.com).