Nokia Acquires Dopplr (confirmed)

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News from Helsinki was they paid "substantially lower" than that listed price. I suspect $8-$10M was the actual price based on anecdotes floating around now in Europe.

Not bad for the original angels, since they at least got a few times their money back ($1.25M originally raised). Not a home run if you're a true angel investor and need 20x multiples though.

ReadWriteWeb claims a sale price of $15-22m. Can anyone confirm/deny this? ( http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/nokia_buys_dopplr_the_o... )

On a tangent, why does everyone drop the 'e' in '*er' these days? Flickr, dopplr, and -many moons ago- twittr.

http://www.doppler.com/

http://www.flicker.com/

It's tough to get real single words as domains these days.

Anyone know how much they took as venture funding? If they only made $15-20m, then it can't be that much.

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