Start-up success stories are always great to hear, especially when the news is focused around a Canadian start-up success story. If you’ve ever owned a BlackBerry, chances are you are using one of Jingu’s highly-popular products. Their current line up includes (but isn’t limited to): Jingu Smileys, Jingu Friends, Jingu Avatars and of course my favorite, Jingu Text. All are focused around not only getting to know fellow BlackBerry users (Friends), but also being creative with the features embedded deep within the OS (Text, Smiley’s and Avatars). The announcement today is that Waterloo-based Rebellion Media has acquired Jingu Apps for an undisclosed sum of money.

“The acquisition of Jingu brings a team to Rebellion that has ten years of mobile experience including being one of the product visionaries behind one of the most successful mobile applications worldwide, Blackberry Messenger (“BBM”). We are excited for Jingu to join Rebellion both for the team’s mobile expertise as well as the million-plus and growing monthly active users on their platform,” said Ted Hastings, CEO of Rebellion Media.

Jingu Friends is a mobile-only social discovery platform that allows users to find mobile messaging users around them and connect with them instantly. Jingu’s platform has grown aggressively since its launch and is currently processing over 100,000 messages per day.

“We had grown our user base aggressively with the initial launch of the app and proved the business model along the way. We were looking for the digital media infrastructure that we could leverage to take our platform to the next level and found that our strategic direction aligned exceptionally well with Rebellion Media. We’re thrilled to be joining this aggressively growing organization and contributing our deep mobile expertise,” stated Theban Ganeshalingam, co-founder of Jingu.

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[via PRWeb]

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