Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Bump Technologies Expands and Raises Money - NYTimes.com

$16.5M in VC for a clever app

Bump started in 2008 as a way for people to exchange contact information without trading old-fashioned paper business cards. But in its newest incarnation, the start-up wants to become a mobile social network for exchanging photos and messages with family and friends.

Now, in addition to contact information, people with iPhones or Android phones can share photos, music, calendar appointments and location, and can also become friends on social networks and send messages to one another. Other apps also use the technology. PayPal, for instance, lets people exchange money by bumping their phones, and two apps trade sexual compatibility information.

Bump Technologies Expands and Raises Money - NYTimes.com

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