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India Press Release (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
/India PRwire/ - Nimbuzz ( www.nimbuzz.com ), the most comprehensive mobile VoIP, presence and IM provider today announces its first key revenue sharing partnership with a social network, formalising its push to provide online communities with real time web and mobile communication. StudiVZ, the biggest German speaking social networking site, becomes the first in a series of international networking...
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[SoftRatty] Lattest Articles (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
In a bid to expand its IM and VoIP services to more users, Nimbuzz has decided to join hands with Germanys largest social network, StudiVZ also one that has been a part of accusations of copying...
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The Next Web (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
The biggest social network in Germany, StudiVZ announced a partnership with Rotterdam based Nimbuzz. Basically it comes down to this: 1. Nimbuzz enters a commercial partnership with social network StudiVZ (12 million users), bringing real-time web and mobile communication to their social networks. 2. They have agreed on a revenue share that will start generating income from adverts [...]
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SMS Text News (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
This is an interesting one. Nimbuzz — one of the best mobile instant messenger clients I’ve ever used on my Nokia — are getting ultra serious. Nimbuzz let’s you use multiple IM and VoIP services (Google, Skype, MSN, Yahoo and the like) on the go. They’ve locked in a potential 12 million [...]
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The Next Web (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
The German equivalent of Facebook “StudiVZ” saw it’s CEO Marcus Riecke leave today after apparent disputes regarding the company’s direction. According to the sources of Mike Butcher (of Techcrunch UK) there was great debate about whether to sell to Facebook or continue their dominance within Germany themselves. The company, now owned by publishing group & investor [...]
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Pulse2 (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
FAZ.net has one of the most interesting interviews I’ve seen with Mark Zuckerberg thus far. Holger Schmidt asked some of the most relevant questions such as what Zuckerberg thinks about StudiVZ, his relationship with Sheryl Sandberg, Windows Live Search integration, revenue vs. growth, and about the recent exodus from the company. One of the [...]
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Inside Facebook (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
While Facebook’s battle with StudiVZ in Germany rages on, the company is doing something to build the German Facebook Platform developer community that it hasn’t done in any other country: hold a rich contest to see who can build the biggest Facebook applications. Facebook announced the winners of the Facebook German Application Contest yesterday. The rules [...]
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TechCrunch (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
Facebook may be the world's largest and fastest growing social network , but apparently Germany remains a tough market to crack for the company. The site is just ranked 19th on Alexa’s Top 100 list for this country , 10 positions behind StudiVZ , its local clone . While Facebook currently has a German user base of an 800,000 (according to the site’s ad placement tool ), StudiVZ boasts a membership...
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Martin Varsavsky (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
My friend Lukasz Gadowski has just announced the launch of Team Europe Ventures, a new home for his large portfolio of Internet companies. Lukasz is a successful entrepreneur who founded Spreadshirt in 2002 and cofounded StudiVZ, Germany’s largest social network (sold to Holtzbrinck last year) and is also an active business angel investing in Internet [...]
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TechCrunch UK (Free subscription) | 09/08/2008
Some interesting and encouraging news coming out of Germany for early stage startups. Lukasz Gadowski, who founded Spreadshirt in 2002 and was the co-founder of the social network StudiVZ, today Germany’s largest website, is starting a new fund for startups. Dubbed Team Europe, the company will take his existing portfolio of investments under Lakattack Ltd - [...]
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
NEW YORK, Sept. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Panther Express (http://www.pantherexpress.net/), a leading global provider of high- performance/high-value content delivery services, today announced they have been selected to provide content delivery services for studiVZ (http://www.studivz.net/), the largest social networking site in Europe with over 5 million members. studiVZ provides three social networking services:...
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Travelblog (Free subscription) | 08/27/2008
So.... I bought a Deutsche Bibel today It's really pretty blue with a sunflower I went jogging again I used the internet... blah blah blah. Then I met Mohamed who had found me on studivz and he was nice and he actually helped my german a little by correcting me when I had bad grammar... and yeah that's all I'm tired. Oh yeah last night was annoying the TV next door was too loud and the
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Softpedia - Latest Mac software (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
Firefox add-on that allows you easily download photos from the StudiVZ website.
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Mashable (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Facebook is getting itself into all kinds of trouble in Germany with the country’s top social network, StudiVZ . According to reports , Facebook is suing the German leader for copying its “look and feel” on its own site and believes it’s misusing Google’s intellectual property. But in a twist that Facebook failed to mention, the company has tried to acquire StudiVZ numerous times and has failed each...
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Revenue Source (Free subscription) | 08/08/2008
Before Facebook sued the German social networking site StudiVZ last month for copying its "look and feel," it had been in talks to purchase the...
