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Vodafone acquires mobile social networking startup ZYB

Posted on May 16, 2008

Vodafone has acquired a Danish mobile startup called ZYB for 31.5 million euros ($48.7 million).ZYB combines a back-up service for your mobile contact and calendar info with social networking tools that allow you to share the info with your friends. Its service also allows you to send images and messages from your computer to multiple mobile devices.Now, there are plenty of mobile social networks out there, and web heavyweights Facebook and MySpace also have mobile sites. But as others have noted, ZYB has been smart in the way it has grown from a back-up service into something approaching a fu...

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