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Wamba
Available inEnglish, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Thai, Greek, Russian, Swedish, Hindi, Indonesian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Serbian, Korean.
Founded2002
HeadquartersLondon, Moscow, Delhi
Area servedWorldwide
OwnerFINAM and DST (Mail.ru group)
Employees150
Websitewamba.com
CommercialFree, but with a charge for higher prominence
Registrationyes
UsersOver 100 m registered since its launch, currently over 25 m active users
Launched2003 as Mamba, July 2012 as Wamba

Wamba is a global social networking service for meeting new people, which was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world.

Background

Wamba was first launched as “Mamba” in 2003. According to the company, it was the first freemium social networking site in the world. Mamba was created by a small team interested in the future of social communication online.

In July 2012, the service was rebranded internationally as Wamba. The service can be accessed through other domains belonging to white-label partners,[1] (such us Msn, Icq, Yahoo, or Mail.ru) and through Wamba's own domains such as Mamba and Mamboo.[2]

Audience

Over 100 million users have registered with Wamba, and the service currently has over 25 million active users worldwide.[3]

Funding

70% of the company is held by the investment company Finam, the other 30% belongs to Digital Sky Technologies (DST) (Mail.ru Group).

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