Biip.no is a

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based in

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. It is currently offline, with plans to relaunch in December 2020. Users can use the site to send free

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messages. As of February 2012, about one million text messages were sent from the site each month.

History

The site was founded on June 1, 2005, by Erling Piken Andersen, Bo Myras and Ozan Özerk. In 2008, TV 2 and

Egmont Group The Egmont Group (formerly The Gutenberghus Group) is a Danish media corporation founded and rooted in Copenhagen, Denmark. The business area of Egmont has traditionally been magazine publishing but has over the years evolved to comprise mass me ...

acquired a majority stake for NOK 76 million.

References

External links

* {{Official website, www.biip.no 2005 establishments in Norway Internet properties established in 2005 Norwegian social networking websites