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RIM Buys Social Calendar Service Tungle

27.04.2011
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has swiped up social calendar company . Tungle provides a cloud-based calendar which syncs with your existing calendar, including Outlook (with or without Exchange), Google Calendar, Apple iCal, and Entourage for Mac and Lotus Notes. You can also sync Tungle to Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare.

The service allows users to share calendars across companies and platforms; to propose meeting times; and to display available dates automatically, based off of all your calendars and without disclosing unwanted information. They can publish this on a searchable database at Tungle.me.

Someone wanting to schedule a meeting with a Tungle user simply can suggest an available time without having to sign up for the service themselves. Users also can build groups and publish public events.

The basic service is free. If a user or company wants to brand their entire scheduling experience, the service costs $4.99 a month or $49.99 a year.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed, but on Tungle's Website, the company states that the entire Tungle team is joining the ranks of RIM. Tungle.Me has raised in funding.

Since Tungle's launch in 2009, the company's scheduling offering was being used at 800 universities around the world, by 40 percent of Fortune 1000 companies, and among users from more than 150 countries.