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RIM Acquires Tungle (tungle.me)
42 points by mamatta on April 27, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


Great service, but it seemed liked they really slowed down about a year ago and gave up on trying to do anything about their growing backlog on GetSatisfaction. As a very early user, it's been frustrating that they haven't done really basic, cheap improvements that obviously would have big impact and lots of users are screaming for.

I can't imagine how RIM owning them will improve the situation. My bet is that within 6 months their GS page is taken down altogether. http://community.tungle.me/tungle


Darn, yet another useful service snapped up by the dying beast. Great for the employees, who I met a few times and thought were great, but bad for the users.


Congrats to Tungle! any info on the acquisition price?


Why is it bad for users?


1) Rim will probably bring Tungle to the grave with them 2) They'll probably change the service to benefit Blackberry users rather than iOS, Android, or even web users. 3) I doubt the product will get the attention it needs to remain useful


2015: YouTube Founders Acquire Tungle.me from RIM




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