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Websitenimbuzz.com
Blogblog.nimbuzz.com
Twitter@nimbuzz
CategoryMobile/Wireless
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Employees80
Founded1/07
Descriptionmobile social messenger

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2909 LK Rotterdam - Capelle aan den IJssel, NLD

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Nimbuzz is a mobile social messenger combining Instant Messaging, (geo) presence, and VoIP. The free application lets users connect and interact with their buddies across popular communities, including Skype, Windows Live Messenger, Yahoo! Messenger, ICQ, GoogleTalk, AIM, and social networks including Facebook and MySpace.

From one contact list users can call, chat, message and more, with all their friends in one place. Nimbuzz is a feature rich mass market product for the hyper-connected lifestyle. All you need is an internet enabled mobile phone with an internet connection.

The free application is available on the mobile, web and PC, for instant messaging, location sharing, (group) calling, file sharing, and chat rooms.

Nimbuzz has positioned itself to become a global communications platform for seamless IP-based communication among mobile devices and social media platforms.

Nimbuzz officially launched in May 2008. In January 2009, Nimbuzz was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Global 100 award, as the first aggregated mobile instant messenger product ever. In July 2008, Nimbuzz was recognized by industry experts at AO Stanford Summit as part of the Global Top 250 technology companies for game-changing technology and market value, and won Best Mobile Startup in its category at Mobile 2.0 Europe.

Nimbuzz is headquartered in the Netherlands, with offices in Argentina and Brazil. The company received VC and strategic funding by Mangrove Capital Partners (Skype), Naspers/MIH (Tencent, Mail.ru, Gadu-Gadu, Mweb, Sanook, Tradus) and Holtzbrinck Ventures (Kyte, StudiVZ).

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Websitenimbuzz.com
Blogblog.nimbuzz.com
StageLive
Launch DateMay 15, 2008
Tags nimbuzz, calls, phone, texting, message, ip-telephony, mobile, messenger, voip, instant-messaging, presence, im, voice, location, web

Nimbuzz provides a number of ways for users to communicate inexpensively. After two parties have downloaded Nimbuzz, they can place mobile-to-mobile calls for the same price as what their providers charge for a local calls. There are no restrictions, which makes the service appealing for international calls. To make a call, you just have to click on a contact and hit “yes” two times. The person you are calling will receive a message that you are trying to call them. If they accept and hit “yes” two times, you will be connected. Group (conference) calls can be made with up to five people.

Nimbuzz also supports PC-to-mobile, mobile-to-PC and PC-to-PC calls. These calls can be made to Nimbuzz, Gtalk, MSN, Skype and AIM buddies and are either free or cost what you pay for a local call.

Users can also send text messages using SMS. As long as both parties have Nimbuzz installed there is no charge to send or receive messages (besides for data charges by your carrier). Nimbuzz text messages have no character limits and in addition to just texting, users can also chat with Nimbuzz, MSN, Skype and Google Talk buddies for free.

If you want to talk or chat with one of your friends and they aren’t online, you can “BUZZ” them. When “BUZZED” a user’s phone will ring once or twice and display the Nimbuzz ID of the person trying to reach them.

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Uploaded: 2/5/08

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gavrielklein - October 17, 2007 at 8:47am
Hi! Just would like to ask something - i have a mobil SonyEricsson K700i , already install nimbuzz and I want to use a skype but! Sometimes even the login to the skype is take a long time and if I start a chat with somebody max 2-3 sentens is going to off-line! So impossible to use for chat! Just want to ask WHY? And maybe in the future is going to work better? Or whats the problem? Thanks for your answer!
Tobias - September 11, 2007 at 6:04am
Pros: it is just SUCH A JOY to be able to use your cell and call friend and family all over this very beautiful globe of ours and not have to worry about enormous charges or being selective about who to call. Nimbuzz allows you to to use their network, as well as GTalk, MSN, Skype and AIM to make calls, send SMS, and chat with your contacts on the respective networks. It mobile freedom and has a beautiful interface, insane ease of use, and a brilliant team of excellent staff and support personnel behind them. Furthermore, they ALREADY came out with an even more beautiful iPhone application. So, if you haven't tried it yet, you might as well do so now, believe me, you'll be so happy you did so. They support over 500 phones, so the likelihood that it works on your phone is "rather high". You'll basically get that feel of "wow, they thought of everything" pretty quick ... and that's always a great feeling to get :) Cons: can't really come up with anything I "don't like", just looking forward to even more compatibility

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