Shape, the developer of the
IM + program, yesterday
announced it has raised $ 10 million from investors from the Russian company Finam.
The IM + smartphone client allows you to connect to numerous IM services, including Skype, ICQ, Jabber, GTalk, Facebook chat, Vkontakte, Mail.ru. From a single interface IM + you can send messages to any of the above services. In the free version, the program shows non-intrusive advertising and is periodically disconnected from Skype servers; in the paid version of IM + Pro, these restrictions are removed (no,
they say that Skype is buggy even in the paid version). The monthly audience of IM + exceeds 17 million people.
Recently, the company Shape released its own communication service Beep, which works in the same way as Viber and is linked to numbers from the phone book, so you can call them and send SMS for free. Great hopes are placed on this Beep service, said Shape founder Igor Berezovsky.
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Shape company was founded in 2002, now it has more than 60 employees. The headquarters is located in Stuttgart, development centers - in Yekaterinburg, Odessa, there are offices in the United States and Asia. The company is also involved
in video surveillance and
remote access to mobile devices .