September 28, 2009 – 10:34 am, by Marko Ahtisaari

Nokia Acquires Dopplr

Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Dopplr has been acquired by Nokia. Nokia shares our vision of the Social Atlas, the idea that social location data can improve our experience of cities.

To see where people on Dopplr go, you can visit the Shepherdess in London, Hakaniemen Halli in Helsinki, or the Hotel on Rivington in New York. We like these places, and we trust you’ll like them too.

The acquisition does not change the current Dopplr service which is available at Dopplr.com and on platforms where Dopplr is integrated, like Flickr and Twitter. As always, if you so wish, you can get a copy of your data from your account.

38 Responses to “Nokia Acquires Dopplr”

  1. hopefully this won’t affect your development for non-nokia apps, like the iphone app…!


  2. [...] the official word is in, with a very short blog post by CEO Marko Ahtisaari: Dopplr has been acquired by [...]


  3. Congrats Dopplr Team!


  4. Wow — congrats! I look forward to seeing how this affects the future development of Dopplr.


  5. Yeah, congrats! I hope you continue your service like you did before, though! And visit Berlin more often ;-)


  6. [...] Ahtisaari, the CEO of Dopplr, has just posted a blog post on the Dopplr Blog that Nokia indeed has acquired the company. Furthermore, Nokia has confirmed this with their own [...]


  7. [...] Nokia Acquires Dopplr · Good work, guys. Seems like an acquisition which makes sense. Let’s hope Nokia maintains Dopplr’s best-in-class take-your-data-away-and-do-what-you-like-with-it principles. [...]


  8. [...] commentsComments Dopplr has just published on their official blog that they’ve been acquired by Nokia for an undisclosed amount. We’ve covered Dopplr back when they’ve received early stage [...]


  9. [...] Ya se venía rumoreando desde la semana pasada, pero hoy mismo Dopplr acaba de hacer oficial que ha sido adquirido por Nokia en una breve nota: Nokia Acquires Dopplr. [...]


  10. Congrats Marko, Lisa, Matt and team! Look forward to seeing what comes soon to my N97!


  11. congrats !


  12. Congrats! I hope you continue your service


  13. [...] (1,139), Nokia (5), Organisation (91), Social Networking (126), Travel (2), Web (1,515) Dopplr says it has been acquired by Nokia: The acquisition does not change the current Dopplr service; [...]


  14. Sweet, are there any apps for nokia phones for Dopplr?


  15. [...] “Today, we’re thrilled to announce that Dopplr has been acquired by Nokia. Nokia shares our vision of the Social Atlas, the idea that social location data can improve our experience of cities…” Read the rest on the Dopplr Blog [...]


  16. [...] hace poco eran solo rumores, pero ya la misma Dopplr ha hecho el anuncio [...]


  17. [...] has just published on their official blog that they’ve been acquired by Nokia for an undisclosed amount. We’ve covered Dopplr back when they’ve received early stage [...]


  18. Congrats! Didn’t think an acquisition was on the line a few months back.


  19. [...] podrobnosti o prevzemu ni znanih, saj je uradna objava na blogu zelo skopa. Marko Ahtisaari (ustanovitelj spletne skupnosti Dopplr) je povedal, da so se za tak [...]


  20. great job guys, and congratulations. hope this will result in some nice dopplr maemo app:)


  21. Interesting. Don’t pull a flickr on us.


  22. [...] ha acquisito DOPPLR, social network per i viaggiatori. L’obiettivo è quello di rafforzare l’offerta [...]


  23. [...] a short blog post Dopplr has this morning confirmed that its rumoured sale to Nokia has completed successfully. The [...]


  24. [...] Här är bekräftelsen. [...]


  25. Nice to see another great service get acknowledged in this way. I just hope the service won’t get neglected or changed too much to fit with Nokia’s other services.


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  27. [...] now it is official: Nokia acquires Dopplr http://blog.dopplr.com/2009/09/28/nokia-acquires-dopplr/ [...]


  28. [...] 9/28: Incidentally the Dopplr blog has also been updated with a post about the acquisition. Posted by gpoul at 1:34pm CEST Filed in Business No Comments [...]


  29. [...] Congratulations to Dopplr on being acquired by Nokia. [...]


  30. congrats team !


  31. [...] sobre la compra de Dopplr por parte de Nokia, en el blog oficial de la red social de viajeros anunciaron oficialmente la operación sin hablar de cifras. Según cuentan el servicio no va a sufrir ningún tipo de [...]


  32. I’m guardedly optimistic that Nokia is smart enough to know not screw up a truly elegant service. Hopefully they will learn some things from you.


  33. [...] has acquired Dopplr, an online community of frequent travellers, giving an early payday for the site’s large [...]


  34. [...] Más información | Dopplr. [...]


  35. Many congrats. Look forward to seeing what next.


  36. [...] that you cam wall off and charge for a network where exclusivity is a feature. My friends at Dopplr just sold their excellent social network to Nokia – congratulations, guys! Dopplr didn’t have am enormous userbase… but the users [...]


  37. Good good. Hyvä homma!


  38. It would be very sweet to see a GPS-aware Dopplr Ovi app running on my N97.


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