{"id":65,"date":"2012-02-14T16:17:10","date_gmt":"2012-02-14T09:17:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.appota.com\/?p=65"},"modified":"2021-04-14T09:19:10","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T02:19:10","slug":"instant-messenger-app-im-raises-10m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.appota.com\/en_US\/instant-messenger-app-im-raises-10m\/","title":{"rendered":"Instant messenger app IM+ raises $10M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shape, the company behind online instant messenger service IM+, announced Monday it has raised $10 million from Russian brokerage firm\u00a0Finam.<\/p>\n<p>IM+ is an online instant messenger and mobile app that connects with multiple instant\u00a0messaging\u00a0services including Aol instant messenger, Jabber, Skype, Google Chat, and Facebook Chat. You can send instant messages from multiple accounts in one interface and save your chat history. The service has more than 17 million monthly users.<\/p>\n<p>Shape also recently released a new instant\u00a0messaging\u00a0app called Beep (pictured above) to compliment IM+. The app sends push notifications to your phone when you receive an instant message. The company hopes the app will take the place of traditional text messages. There are similar products on the market, including web-based IM aggregator imo.im.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the new release of Beep in-app push messenger [it will] allow people to save on SMS and MMS while simultaneously chatting on Facebook, Skype, Google Talk and tweet,\u201d said IM+ founder\u00a0Igor Berezovsky in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"2122\" src=\"http:\/\/venturebeat.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/02\/screen-shot-2012-02-13-at-2-22-16-pm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"505\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The funding kicks off a partnership between Finam and Shape, which are teaming up to create an instant messenger service for the Russian market.<\/p>\n<p>Shape was founded in 2002 and has\u00a0grown to include more than 60 employees. The company has headquarters in Germany and also maintains offices in the U.S. and Asia.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: V.B<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shape, the company behind online instant messenger service IM+, announced Monday it has raised $10 million from Russian brokerage firm\u00a0Finam. IM+ is an online instant messenger and mobile app that connects with multiple instant\u00a0messaging\u00a0services including Aol instant messenger, Jabber, Skype, Google Chat, and Facebook Chat. You can send instant messages from multiple accounts in one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[887],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Instant messenger app IM+ raises $10M - Appota News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.appota.com\/vi\/instant-messenger-app-im-raises-10m\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Instant messenger app IM+ raises $10M - Appota News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Shape, the company behind online instant messenger service IM+, announced Monday it has raised $10 million from Russian brokerage firm\u00a0Finam. 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