Nokia buys social network Plazes

Yesterday, the Finnish company Nokia announced the purchase of the mobile social network Plazes . This is a very significant event that can greatly affect the future of social networks. The fact is that Plazes belongs to the class of so-called mobile geo-dependent social networks, specially optimized for work on mobile devices. According to some experts, it is for them that the future of the entire Internet. At the same time, Nokia is the world's largest manufacturer of mobile phones, and this transaction potentially automatically brings new technology to the mass market.

Nokia has already announced that Plazes support will be added to the end of this year at least a dozen new mobile phone models.

Startup Plazes is registered in Switzerland, but the main office with 13 employees is located in Germany. The startup has been in a closed beta for a year and a half, but despite this, it has already managed to get $ 3.5 million in venture capital investments. The amount of the deal with Nokia is not called, but also amounts to millions of dollars.
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