In an SEC filing, it was revealed that a stealth company called Kicktag has raised $2 million in funding. Michael Downing, the former CEO of GoFish, is the founder and CEO of Kicktag. He is also the former EIR at the Stanford Research Institute.

INQ Mobile is a phone manufacturing company that is based in London.  The company also has offices in Rome, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Beijing.  INQ focuses on building mobile devices that are affordable and they generally have social networking features built in.  The company’s latest announcement is that they are working on a mobile phone that revolves around Twitter.

In the past, INQ released a phone that revolved around Facebook and it was called INQ1.  INQ’s Twitter phone will have the ability to receive 140 character messages directly.  “This can really help open up and drive Twitter use on mobile when usage becomes part of your data package like on the PC,” stated INQ CEO Frank Meehan.

[via Mirror UK]