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Habbo Hotel Buys Finnish Social Networking Firm IRC-Galleria

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Finnish online community company Sulake Labs, which runs the Habbo Hotel online roleplaying/gaming service, has bought Finnish social network Dynamoid of IRC-Galleria fame. The site will be rebranded by Sulake before being relaunched as an international offering. The new service would target an older audience than Habbo Hotel, which has a core audience of 12- to 17-year-olds.

SEE ALSO: Habbo Hotel Parent Sulake Gets $7.65 Million Funding

The service is used by 850K Finns every week and also serves Russian and German audiences, reports Guardian. More details in release.

Apr 23, 2007 7:50 PM ET

Posted In: Social Media, Countries, Europe

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