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Mobile Voice Startup iSkoot Buys IM Client Social.im

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Mobile voice and chat startup iSkoot has made a small acquisition: it has bought social IM aggregator client Social.im, according to Techcrunch. iSkoot was the first company to work with Skype to bring the service to mobiles, and has raised about $14 million in two rounds, with investors such as Khosla Ventures and Charles River Ventures. Social.im has developed a client to enable chat with all your Facebook friends, and integrates other clients such as MSN, Yahoo (NSDQ: YHOO) IM and AOL…but with Facebook launching its own IM client, its popularity perhaps never took off. Now the hope is mobile integration…

Sep 4, 2008 10:11 PM ET

Posted In: Money, M&A & Venture Capital, Mergers & Acquisitions, Social Media, iskoot, social.im

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