Pulse2 Technology and Social Media News » iSkoot http://pulse2.com Sun, 27 May 2012 16:32:49 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Qualcomm Acquires iSkoot http://pulse2.com/2010/10/18/qualcomm-acquires-iskoot/ http://pulse2.com/2010/10/18/qualcomm-acquires-iskoot/#comments Tue, 19 Oct 2010 01:31:22 +0000 Amit Chowdhry http://pulse2.com/?p=36492 Continue reading →]]>
QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) has acquired San Francisco mobile start-up company iSkoot through the The Qualcomm Innovation Center (QuIC) division. iSkoot provides social networking services to phones that are not considered smartphones. iSkoot also allows users to make and receive PC calls using only regular cell phones. The acquisition financial details were undisclosed.

iSkoot launched in 2005 and developed a platform called the Kalaida Platform. The Kalaida Platform optimizes wireless data before sending it to handsets according to GigaOM. iSkoot will be a subsidiary of QuIC. iSkoot currently powers social networking applications that are offered on basic phones sold on T-Mobile, Verizon, and AT&T. iSkoot has also developed VoIP software.

[GigaOM]

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iSkoot is a VoIP mobile company. Today the company has announced that they have acquired Social.IM, an IM company. Social.IM created a software that allows you to chat with Facebook friends that also happen to be on Facebook Chat, Yahoo! Messenger, GTalk, AIM, etc.

Social.IM works on Windows and on Mac OS X.

“Social.IM has served as an instant Web communications desktop platform and we see a clear consumer integration with iSkoot’s upcoming suite of Web to mobile push services,” stated Mark Jacobstein, iSkoot CEO. “Acquiring Social.IM is a key step in our path to introduce later this year a groundbreaking new communications platform that will revolutionize the mobile landscape.”

Before iSkoot bought out Social.IM, the chat application was almost screwed. This is because it created a chat application for Facebook. Then Facebook launched their own chat software. If iSkoot did not buy-out Social.IM, the company would just watch Facebook users ignore their application and use Facebook Chat directly.

The financial details of the acquisition were undisclosed.

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