Vodafone acquires ZYB
May 16, 2008 at 11:41 | In News |Tags: acqusition, Vodafone, ZYB
I have good news for all of you ZYB users. Today we are joining the Vodafone Group. The ZYB team is very exited about this opportunity and we are all looking forward to working with Vodafone in pursuit of our vision – to create a new mobile experience by connecting your phone to your real life social network of friends, family and colleagues. In the discussions we have had with Vodafone it has become clear to all of us that Vodafone shares our vision and is eager to support us in our endeavours. Ahead of us lies a great opportunity to continue our innovation at an even greater pace than was possible before. As for the service, ZYB will stay open and free for all users all around the world, regardless of whether they are customers of Vodafone or any other network operator. I want to use this opportunity to thank all of you out there who have used ZYB in the course of these last two years. Your feedback has been an absolutely invaluable asset for us!
-tommy
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WOW!!! A danish Web succes….
Congratulations to all at ZYB and to Morten Lund for being at the right place at the right time…. again and again.
Comment by Kristian E — May 16, 2008 #
[...] news broke today that Zyb, the Danish mobile phone backup and social network company that won one of the three [...]
Pingback by SIME Innovation Day Award Winners Zyb acquired by Vodafone | SIME BLOG — May 16, 2008 #
CONGRATS! This is just great!
Comment by JPierre — May 16, 2008 #
[...] in Vodafones Internet-Services-Sparte integriert werden. Firmensitz bleibt weiterhin Kopenhagen. Nach eigenen Angaben will Zyb seinen Service auch in Zukunft allen Nutzern weltweit kostenlos zur Verfgung stellen - [...]
Pingback by Vodafone bernimmt Zyb - Business | ZDNet.de News — May 16, 2008 #
Congratulations !
A danish success, but also a European success !
I’ve covered it on the Europe 2.0 blog.
I’d be keen to have further comments or an interview.
Comment by Roald Cyberath — May 16, 2008 #
great news I think, hope it will not affect what I have now.
Comment by faizal — May 16, 2008 #
[...] chief executive Tommy Ahlers says ZYB will remain free to everyone, even if they’re not Vodafone customers [...]
Pingback by Vodafone acquires mobile social networking startup ZYB » VentureBeat — May 16, 2008 #
[...] zich eerst op een goede integratie van ZYB in Denemarken. De baas van ZYB, Tommy Ahlers, heeft op de weblog van het bedrijf wel de melding gemaakt dat de dienst voor iedereen gratis zal blijven. [...]
Pingback by Vodafone koopt een mobiel social network | Inspiratie 2.0 — May 16, 2008 #
Bravo
congratulations !
Comment by christophe — May 16, 2008 #
[...] mobile sociale-bluetooth-tjeneste Imity. Siden blev Imity opkøbt af ZYB, og så altså i dag blev ZYB solgt til mastodonten Vodafone (og selvfølgeligt derfor blevet Techcrunched) [...]
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[...] seconda battuta, ZYB è stato acquisito da Vodafone, come è possibile leggere sul loro blog. Lo scopo di questa acquisizione è sviluppare il versante "mobile social network", che [...]
Pingback by ZYB diventa un social network (e viene acquisito da Vodafone) | Giovy's Blog — May 17, 2008 #
Way to go Tommy!
Congrats and keep on the great work.
-eran lagon.
Comment by eran lagon — May 17, 2008 #
[...] friends from the company where I worked the first 4-5 months of my time in Denmark sold out to Vodafone last friday! Of course congratulations go to Tommy, Ole, and the rest of team, but I have to say [...]
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[...] Vodafone acquires ZYB « ZYB blog [...]
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[...] Vodafone. Nothing changes. It’s been a crazy few years, and an even crazier weekend. ZYB was acquired by Vodafone on Friday, and we have been celebrating all weekend. Monday it’s back to work. [...]
Pingback by Part of Vodafone. Nothing changes. « Ole Højriis Kristensen — May 18, 2008 #
[...] Nachricht siehe http://blog.zyb.com/2008/05/16/vodafone-acquires-zyb/ zurück zur [...]
Pingback by Vodafon kauft Zyb für EUR 31,5 Mio | Gründerszene — May 19, 2008 #
congradulations tommy. keep walking and keep showing us the exciting things. ^^
Comment by morris ho — May 19, 2008 #
Gratz Tommy!
(and Morten)
Niels
Comment by Niels — May 19, 2008 #
[...] just got bought out by Vodaphone so I guess they will be sticking around for [...]
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[i]“As for the service, ZYB will stay open and free for all users all around the world, regardless of whether they are customers of Vodafone or any other network operator.”[/i]
Congratulations on your success! I’m very glad to hear that you plan on keeping your service open and free. I hope vodaphone doesn’t chew up your company and spit it back out when they’re sick of it.
Many telcom groups are nothing more than used car salesmen in disguise.
Comment by gyrfalcon — May 20, 2008 #
Congratulations ! nice exit.
Comment by karl — May 20, 2008 #
Congritulation nice exit.
Comment by Serajazam — May 21, 2008 #
[...] Read the zyb official post about this. [...]
Pingback by Vodafone adquires Zyb.com | experiencing mobility and social software — May 21, 2008 #
[...] mobile sociale-bluetooth-tjeneste Imity. Siden blev Imity opkøbt af ZYB, og så altså i dag blev ZYB solgt til mastodonten Vodafone (og selvfølgeligt derfor blevet Techcrunched) [...]
Comment by durgesh — May 22, 2008 #
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hai vodafone is so good I like them because thet have good feature that i can solve some problem to them.
Comment by durgesh — May 22, 2008 #
Great efforts,Tommy!
C u @the Top!
-regards
Comment by Rishabhrohan — May 24, 2008 #
Congratulations. Keep your commitments.
Regards.
Comment by Akhilesh — May 29, 2008 #
HI [i]“As for the service, ZYB will stay open and free for all users all around the world, regardless of whether they are customers of Vodafone or any other network operator.”[/i]
Congratulations on your success! I’m very glad to hear that you plan on keeping your service open and free. I hope vodaphone doesn’t chew up your company and spit it back out when they’re sick of it.
Many telcom groups are nothing more than used car salesmen in disguise
Comment by Bhavesh — May 29, 2008 #
Hi ZYB Team,
i m happy that vodafone
also shares with u …
i m using vodafone….since last 6 yrs.
take care ok
Comment by pinku — May 30, 2008 #
this is being good expirence…. to use zyb…
congratulation/….
Comment by pinku — May 30, 2008 #
congratulation.this is nice exit
Comment by sogand — June 7, 2008 #
can u tell me the procedure of backup of mobile data
Comment by ravi — June 9, 2008 #
pl update me how to be member of this site n i realy like this n i want to join this.
Comment by hansraj — June 9, 2008 #
Congrats….>>!!!!!!!
Comment by Sumanth D — June 12, 2008 #
Congratulations. Since discovering this service around 18 months ago I’ve been extremely impressed with all they’ve done. This is validation of the vision. Well done!
Comment by AlBrown — June 29, 2008 #
Good news as voda fone is worldly renowned celluler company n hope that it will enhance more ZYB services from present stuff
Comment by Talha — July 1, 2008 #
[...] mobile phonebook stars Zyb are hiring. They were recently aqcuired by Vodafone, and at the Reboot conference there were several people in Zyb t-shirts with a recruitment message, [...]
Pingback by Some interesting news from the SIME-sphere | SIME BLOG — July 2, 2008 #
it is just great !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by PANKAJ CONTRACTOR — July 6, 2008 #