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^{Dopplr continues services} Nokia acquires more social networking

28 Sep 2009 at 12:11 GMT Timo Poropudas

Nokia confirmed today that it has acquired Dopplr. The news had been widely reported in media during the past week.

Dopplr Oy is a privately-held mobile service provider for international travelers. Dopplr has a team of seven people with offices in London and Helsinki. The Dopplr team brings to Nokia's Services unit unique know-how in creating internet-based communities and showing their journeys, experiences and tastes collectively on the web.

The acquisition does not change the current Dopplr service which is available at Dopplr.com and on platforms where Dopplr is integrated.

Dopplr is a service for travelers who share personal and business travel plans privately with their networks, and highlight interesting places to stay, eat and explore in cities around the world. Dopplr presents this collective intelligence - the travel patterns and preferences of the world's most frequent travellers - as a Social Atlas. The CEO of Dopplr is Marko Ahtisaari. The son of the former Finnish president and Nobel Peace Price winner Martti Ahtisaari, Marko used to work at Nokia’s creative leaderhip and later at mobile media operator Blyk.

The price that Nokia paid for Dopplr was not made public. The TechCrunch net magazine estimated that the price to be 10–15 million euros. According to the leading Finnish daily Helsingin Sanomat the price was considerably less.