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In their push to expand their social networking offerings, Nokia has announced their intention to buy the photo-sharing social-networking service Twango. Anssi Vanjoki, head of Nokia’s multimedia unit said, “The Twango acquisition is a concrete step towards our Internet services vision of providing seamless access to information, entertainment, and social networks.”
The future of mobile phones definitely lies in social networking, and with this newest acquisition, Nokia is set to provide “the most complete suite of connected multimedia experiences including music, navigation, games, and… photos, videos, and a variety of document types.”
[Via: Yahoo News]
Update: Stefan here, resident Nokia addict. According to Light Reading the deal was valued at a hair under $100 Million. Props to them for the wickedly cunning title “It takes Web 2.0 to Twango.”
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Will Park
Will hails from The City of Angels - Los Angeles, California. He spends his time playing with his numerous gadgets and looking forward to seeing what future holds for mobile technology. An avid promoter of a fully "digital" life, he promotes the widespread adoption of truly mobile, paper-less living. He dreams of the day when he can go completely digital. No more snail mail, paper receipts, bound books, notepads/spiral notebooks, credit cards, hard currency. He's a digital warrior - fighting for the converged life. He is an idealist and a realist - he has a perfect view of what the world should be but knows that the world is not perfect. Can we ever hope to see Will's dream become reality? We'll see...
