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Bump Technologies Expands and Raises Money
Bump Technologies makes an app that lets people bump their phones together to exchange things like business cards, photos and even money.
Now, in addition to contact information, people with iPhones or Android phones can share photos, music, calendar appointments and location, and can also become friends on social networks and send messages to one another. Other apps also use the technology. PayPal, for instance, lets people exchange money by bumping their phones, and two apps trade sexual compatibility information.
“Bump just opens up a whole new landscape of social interactions and interpersonal functions and uses and photo sharing and transactions all based on physical proximity,” said Marc Andreessen, the Andreessen Horowitz partner who will join Bump’s board.
“It’s a proximity-based social network, for people and things you’re actually physically interacting with,” Mr. Lieb said.
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Monday, January 10, 2011
Social networking, exchanging pictures, exchanging money, trading sexual compatibility information all by bumping
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