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Nokia Buys Vulcan-Backed Plum

Gregory T. Huang9/11/09

Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) said today it has acquired certain assets of Plum, a social media sharing and messaging service based in Boston and San Francisco. Financial terms were not given. Plum, which has about 10 employees, is backed by Vulcan Capital in Seattle and Levensohn Venture Partners in San Francisco.

Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's National IT Editor and the Editor of Xconomy Boston. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com, call him at 617-252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at @gthuang.

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