Giant mobile phone producer Nokia announced today its plan of acquiring “certain assets” of social address book startup Cellity.
The Hamburg-based company was founded on october 2006 and develops an addressbook 2.0 that allows users to continuously update all their contacts from their phonebook, Outlook and social networks in order to always have them synchronized.
“Cellity has a very talented and innovative team, which we are very happy to have on board at Nokia. With this acquisition, we can accelerate our service development in some of our core areas,” said Christof Hellmis, Vice President, Services, Nokia.
Nokia essentially just bought the founding team, since the Cellity product offering will be discontinued soon.
“We are excited that Nokia has chosen our team and technology. With our experience from building social networking solutions, we can help Nokia further develop their services offering,” said Nils Weitemeyer, CEO of Cellity.
Looks like a really focused acquisition for Nokia, it is fair to assume that the team will work on their symbian platform (another nice aquisition by Nokia) on some new social features. The amount of the deal has not been disclosed.
