Meebo
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Meebo's homepage as of December 2011.
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Type of site
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Instant messager, social networking service |
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| Founded | September 14, 2005 |
| Headquarters | Mountain View, California, USA |
| Owner | |
| Founder(s) | Sandy Jen, Elaine Wherry, Seth Sternberg |
| CEO | Seth Sternberg |
| Products | Community IM, Meebo Bar and Meebo Me |
| Services | Meebo Messenger, Meebo Rooms |
| Slogan(s) | Together is Better |
| Website | www |
| IPv6 support | No |
| Alexa rank |
 169,215 (August 2014[update]) |
| Advertising | Yes |
| Registration | Optional |
| Users | 250 million monthly (2011) |
| Launched | September 2005 |
| Current status | Discontinued |
| Native client(s) on | Android, BlackBerry, iOS |
Meebo was an instant messaging and social networking service provider. It was founded in September 2005 by Sandy Jen, Seth Sternberg, and Elaine Wherry, and was based in Mountain View, California. Initially the company offered a web-based instant messenger service, extending its offer in more general online chat and even social networking directions. In June 2012, Google acquired Meebo to merge the company's staff with the Google+ developers team.
After the initial period when the project was funded exclusively by its founders, Meebo raised $100,000 as angel investments (investors included Auren Hoffman and Marc Andreessen), received $3.5 million from Sequoia in 2005, and $9 million from Draper Fisher Jurvetson in 2006. In April 2008, Meebo secured $25 million in venture capital funding from Jafco Investment, Time Warner and KTB Investment & Securities.
In February 2011, Meebo acquired Mindset Media advertising company to improve its ads targeting.
On 4 June 2012, Meebo announced that they had entered into an agreement to be acquired by Google. A month later, on 11 July 2012, all of Meebo's products were discontinued except for Meebo Bar, which remained operational until 6 June 2013. Meebo's staff was assigned to Google+ development.
While initially operating on web access to the instant messaging market, Meebo expanded its offerings in the increasingly popular social network services. During the rise of the new generation of smartphone operating systems, Meebo released mobile applications for all major platforms: Android, iOS and BlackBerry.
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