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"Microsoft announced today its intention to acquire mobile services and solutions specialist MobiComp, a company headquartered in Braga, Portugal and with international bases in the UK, Malaysia, and Dubai. MobiComp provides the mobile backup and data sharing solution MobileKeeper as well as Active mTicker, a system which delivers automated notifications via information subscriptions. Uses for mTicker can range from basic news alerts to advertising. \nFinancial details have not been disclosed. The deal is officially still pending. But the addition of MobiComp to Microsoft\u2019s mobile business is likely to bring the software giant ample value. MobiComp presently maintains a partner list of 11 mobile operators worldwide, presumably in and around the abovementioned markets, therefore Microsoft\u2019s effort to grow its share in the smartphone sector globally will perhaps be benefited somewhat with MobiComp\u2019s infusion. The company's MobileKeeper Sharing &amp; Communities is particularly telling of what Microsoft might pursue much further development of for its mobile division.\nAs MobiComp describes it, MobileKeeper Sharing &amp; Communities gives users the ability to \"create, share and download content, while building their personal communities and networks or publish content direct to blogs and social networking sites such as Flickr and Hi5 on the move, with ease.\"\nAmong the market gains MobiComp has so far accomplished is the quite substantial arrangement it secured with Portugal's leading mobile services provider TMN. MobiComp has supplied a large portion of the carrier's roughly 5 million subscribers with its Active mTicker provision, which TMN agreed in late 2006 to pre-install on all handsets sold to its customers."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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