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iSkoot buys social.im

Posted on September 05, 2008

In a sign that iSkoot wants to be known for more than providing mobile Skype services, yesterday they gobbled up social.im. As TechCrunch wrote:Social.im was a promising service, until Facebook launched its own IM feature. The play here for iSkoot is to bring that social IM functionality to its mobile client (as well as news and other information).Inquiring minds want to know whether this functionality will be part of future Skypephone products. Or perhaps there s a Facebook Phone in the works.Related articles by ZemantaiSkoot acquires social networking client Social.IM ...

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facebook , mobile , social networking
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