Pushing beyond its mobile Skype service, iSkoot has purchased social.im, and instant messaging client that let’s you IM all of your Facebook friends. iSkoot already has a partnership with Skype to bring the VoIP service to mobile phones, including Skype-branded mobile phones in other countries. With social.im, it will add a Web-based IM service that taps into your social network.
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).
Terms of the deal are not being disclosed. iSkoot has raised $13 million from investors including Khosla ventures and Charles River Ventures.
It is not often that you hear about a startup making a acquisition .
interesting they didnt go for friendvox or babuki, two other facebook messengers
The team at Social.IM was quite good. If they got the team as well, that might be on reason!
And Social.IM was pretty slick…though I’ve not tried the other ones you mention!
Thank god for tools like adium, or I’d be drowning in the different IM interfaces!
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Congrads to our neighbors and friends at iSkoot!
Does anybody know what the acquisition price was? Do you think that the founders made any money or did the investors just recoup their investment?
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