IM on the iPhone is Still Popular: eBuddy Hits 100M Downloads
Since its launch last 2007, eBuddy has reached 100 million downloads, making it the most successful independent mobile instant messaging platform today. It aggregates major instant messaging interfaces like AIM, Facebook Chat, Google Talk, Hyves, ICQ, Myspace, Windows Live Messenger and Yahoo Messenger in one application. From eBuddy co-founder and CEO Jan Joost Rueb:
“People are always looking for ways to keep in touch with their friends, family and colleagues, and with the advent of touch screens and improved platforms, our mobile application continues to grow from strength-to-strength.Reaching the 100 million mobile download milestone speaks not only to the popularity of mobile IM, but also to our continuous ability to translate the eBuddy application to virtually any mobile platform or mobile device.”
eBuddy is dramatically expanding globally, especially in India, Indonesia and Brazil. Consumer-oriented mobile downloads is expected to rise from less than 2.6 billion last year to 25 billion by 2015. eBuddy has pretty much set a place for itself in this relatively growing market.
“eBuddy is extremely well positioned to capitalize on the booming mobile application market,” added Rueb. “The ongoing success and popularity of eBuddy’s mobile applications around the world is a testament to eBuddy’s market leadership in the mobile instant messaging sector. Quite simply, we make it easy and cost-effective for our users to have a great chat experience at home, work, school or on-the-go.”
In other mobile IM news, Beejive made its way to Android, bringing even more aggregate and inclusive chat tools to the Android Market.
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