Company Name: fring
Launched in: 2007
Location: Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel-Aviv based fring announced today that they are releasing their API, allowing third-party developers the opportunity to develop new applications called fring Add-ons for the fring community. fring offers peer to peer mobile VOIP and allows users to chat, call, and transfer files from mobile to PC or mobile to mobile, completely free of charge, using the mobile devices’ Wi-Fi connection. The company has a strong managerial team led by Avi Shechter, Co-founder and CEO of fring, who was also the CEO of ICQ in its early days.
In our conversation, Roy Timor-Rousso, fring’s Product Marketing VP pointed out that currently the company is not focusing on earning revenue, but rather on building the fring community and brand. According to fring, they have experienced phenomenal growth since their launch in January 2007 with users in more than 200 countries, growing at more than 100,000 new users each month. fring is available on more than 600 mobile phones and devices, such as Symbian Series 60, Sony Ericsson UIQ, Windows Mobile 5 & 6 and the iPhone. In the past, users complained of a few problems such as a bug causing the deletion of SMS’s, however, Timor-Rousso affirmed that all these bugs had been fixed in the latest version, which came out in late May. (more...)
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