if(we) is a social and mobile technology company based in San Francisco, California. and owned by

The Meet Group The Meet Group, Inc. (formerly MeetMe) owns several mobile social networking services including MeetMe, hi5, LOVOO, Growlr, Skout, and Tagged. The company has offices in New Hope, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Dresden, and Berlin. O ...

. It was originally known as Tagged Inc. and owns and operates social networks Tagged.com and Hi5.com and animated

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messaging app Nod. The company operates as an incubator of new social technology and apps seeking to find the next big thing. The firm has been ranked the #3 Best Place to Work in the Bay Area for medium size companies and has 140 employees.

History

The company was created when it acquired Tinode and announced that it would begin working on additional social products besides Tagged and Hi5. It also announced that it would drop plans of pursuing an IPO and concentrate on new social opportunities. If(we) is planning to release a messaging app as its first new product. The company had $57 million in revenue in 2013 and has been profitable since 2008. In March 2017 the company was acquired by MeetMe.

Online Brands

Nod

The company released Nod in the

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in July 2015. Nod is a messaging app that features customizable avatars and emoji animations.

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selected Nod as a best new app.

Digsby

Digsby is a real-time communications

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that connects multiple

Instant Messaging Instant messaging (IM) technology is a type of online chat allowing real-time text transmission over the Internet or another computer network. Messages are typically transmitted between two or more parties, when each user inputs text and trigge ...

services such as AIM,

MSN MSN (meaning Microsoft Network) is a web portal and related collection of Internet services and apps for Windows and mobile devices, provided by Microsoft and launched on August 24, 1995, alongside the release of Windows 95. The Microsoft Net ...

, ICQ and

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin M ...

in one application. It was founded at The

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and was bought in April 2011 as the first acquisition by the company. Digsby was subsequently open sourced by if(we) in 2012.

hi5

Once one of the top 3 social networks, the company acquired

hi5 hi5 is an American social networking service based in San Francisco, California. It is owned by The Meet Group. Users can create a profile and provide personal information including interests, age, photos, and hometown. Users can also send f ...

in December 2011 and merged it into the features on Tagged while operating it as a separate site and brand.

Sidewalk

Sidewalk is a stand-alone app for local neighborhood discovery. It is available only in San Francisco.

Swoon

Swoon is an Android dating app similar to

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application where people swipe through photographs and indicate their interest in meeting similar to the site

Hot or Not Hot or Not, currently rebranded as Chat & Date, is a rating site that allowed users to rate the attractiveness of photos submitted voluntarily by others. The site offered a matchmaking engine called 'Meet Me' and an extended profile feature ca ...

. When two people both express mutual interest a match is made and people are invited to

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with each other.

Tagged

Tagged Tagged may refer to: * Tagged (website), a social discovery website * Tagged (web series), an American teen psychological thriller web series {{disambiguation ...

is a social discovery service available on the web and mobile apps designed for meeting new people and dating. It was originally a social network but pivoted to be a site to meet new people in 2007. It also offers social games as part of its features. It became profitable in 2008 and had $43 million in revenue in 2011.

References

External links

*{{official website, http://www.ifwe.co Companies based in San Francisco Internet properties established in 2004 2004 establishments in California 2017 mergers and acquisitions