You didn’t think you would be reading this this morning, did you? Yup. It’s official. The team at Tungle will now be sporting new BlackBerrys
Tungle has been acquired by Research In Motion (RIM).
We’re really excited about this. We know there isn’t an industry more exciting than the smartphone and tablet markets. And RIM is a dominant player in this space.
And they’re Canadian, eh?
This is exciting for you too as we expect the Tungle service to only get better. Our plan today is what it has always been – for Tungle to become integrated with your daily activities and be ubiquitous within the applications you’re already using. When you think scheduling, Tungle should be at your fingertips.
As of today, the entire team is joining the ranks of RIM. It’s playoff season and the Tungle team is focusing on putting the puck in the net for you, our customers.
You have kept us on our toes, given us great ideas and most importantly, have been great supporters. For that, we thank you.
Our objective is to keep innovation at the forefront – to be rebels in our own way. Think, Create, Innovate.
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Congrats! and brrrr… cant help shaking at the idea of corp Goliath acquiring a 2.0 David and leave you guys on your rebel quantum level. luckily, tungle.me app will work better on my crackberry
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Congrats guys (and gals)!
You’ve got a great service and you’ve worked hard to develop it, so much due rewards. I use both Tungle and Blackberry and love both services, so this should be a great marriage!
Here’s to brighter futures and greater innovations.
Celebrate Life!
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Bravo à toute l’équipe!
C’est une excellente nouvelle, mais aussi un difficile défi, soit de contribuer à aider RIM à passer du 1.0 au 2.0 et d’instiller une culture d’innovation, ce qu’ils essaient désespérément de faire depuis trois ans.
Je vous souhaite d’avoir assez de distance pour maintenir votre culture d’innovation et, espérons-le, de contaminer positivement la culture de ce fleuron canadien. On les aime quand même bien les Ontariens
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Marc, Erin, Jason and others… – Congrats! Wishing all the best to the whole Tungle Team!
Adam
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Thank you everyone. The team has worked hard to get us here – and we are looking to keep being rebels and keep on innovating. There’s just so much to do – we have just scratched the surface.
Cheers!!!
Eager to see New features and exciting things in the days to come.
Congrats.
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Wishing all the best to the whole team. Let many more good and innovative ideas come through Tungle team. Let Tungle get even better recognition with this deed. Long Live Tungle
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Similar to others, have enjoyed using the product for quite a while and wish your team all the best. Am hoping for the best that this doesn’t mean you diminish support or interoperability with Google/Android or iPhone. Your product would be hurt, not helped, by such a directional shift.
Cheers, Chris
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I am happy for you – have a great time with “more!!”
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Glad u guys got paid, everyone needs to get compensated for their hard work and innovation. Just hope that the app remains useful across all platforms.
Congratulations Marc! Wow!
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I’ve used Tungle for a few years now, and in the midst of my current hiring it has been a God-send to just be able to “look at my calendar” and book some time next Tuesday. It has made my life so much easier. I hope the RIM deal sees you happy, wealthy, and with more resources to do even cooler things with Tungle.
Best,
Andrew Kippen
Boxee
Congratulations Marc and Richard,
and I am sure RIM will do the right think by the users of other platforms, including Android.
Just good news indeed.
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I see that Tungle.me is not available in the iPhone store!
The Tungle iPhone app is available in the AppStore and there is even an update posted on 27.4.2011.
Tudo bem, um bom dia pra todos os meus amigos: toninhho malta
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So – another one of my favorite tools acquired by RIM… does this mean @tunglerocks + @Gist ?
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what a terribly sad announcement
You guys are so much better motivated, attentive and responsive to Customer needs than the losers who stayed on at RIM ever desired to be. Sure, you accepted some money this month but be careful what you wished for and what you agreed to – our internal sources say that the downward trend has turned into a spiral at RIM and currently the acronym stands for Red Ink Management. Alas, Tungle in all its brilliance is not going to save RIM. Hope you get that Google Sync bugged fixed soon
Since when did a billion dollars+ in proft every quarter mean red ink?
It’s pretty clear what the “B” in your names stands for. What a sour, and inaccurate response.
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Congratulations! I only wish this union could lead me back to using Tungle once more, but it seems to play fist-to-cuff with Google Sync (or is it the other way ’round?).
Congrats to the Tungle team and to RIM for pulling this off. Color me skeptical that this is good news for Android users like me however. Roadmap soon would sure be nice.
I think the recent news regarding Android app support for Playbook is indicative of a cooperative approach to business with Google & RIM. I don’t see them squashing this stuff.
Way to go!
Congrats on the acquisition, and I hope you continue to innovate with a product I enjoy using on my own website!
What does this mean for all us Android HTC users? I just bought a ThunderBolt.
Congratulations on your acquisition! I think Tungleme is a great app, hoping the playing field will remain open with non-rim devices. I’m sure you’ll keep us posted.
Congratulations Marc and Team Tungle. I hope some of that entrepreneurial spirit like what you did at SXSW will be brought to the RIM team.
You folks have an amazing service and as I have mentioned to Marc on more than one occasion, for corporate customers I see paying for the service IF we can use it to push calendars as well as pull calendars.
As a a conversion service I think you have everything at your finger tips to deliver real business value beyond a consolidated web calendar. I hope with your talents and RIM’s backing this becomes a priority!
Congrat’s, I hope the entire Tungle team benefit from this transaction and I look forward to what you can deliver next with the support of RIM. Go Canada, eh!!
Congrats, but what’s the future for the iPhone app?
So we still don’t the details of transaction? But congrats to you guys anyway!
Congratulations!
I hope this means that the staff will finally have the resources to implement some of the (BASIC) customer-requested features (like first/second/third choice appointment times, required basic contact information, the ability to make additional custom fields and make them required when necessary….)
Most of all, I hope RIM keeps the free service for low-volume users. While I have my dreams and wishes for it, I use it because it fits my budget for occasional needs.
Congrats, again.
-Lori
I completely agree with you Lori! I hope Tungle is able to maintain and expand its free services offering. I also hope that it will be and continue to be accessable among verus platforms ie Android. I have been using Tungle for sometime now and I love it! I have referred many others to Tungle and they are now active users of the service. As a small nonprofit organization it helps me to effectively maintain my calendar without an assistant and it is important for us to manage cost in order to effectively serve our community. It is very important to my organization that Tungle maintains the free version.
Congratulations and thanks for such a great product!
Congratulations!
I hope this means that the staff assigned to this service will finally have the resources to implement some of the (BASIC) customer-requested features (like first/second/third choice appointment times, required basic contact information, the ability to make additional custom fields and make them required when necessary….)
Most of all, I hope RIM keeps the free service for low-volume users. While I have my dreams and wishes for it, I use it because it fits my budget for occasional needs.
-Lori
Hope this is good for you. I can’t help but wonder if it will be good for the customers. I was a big fan of Jott – acquired by Nuance, and no longer in service as of next week. Unfortunately, I have not found an alternative to Tungle that is nearly as good. I agree that this does not bode well for the long-awaited Android app. PLEASE try not to let RIM bring you down.
Congratulations. Nice way to start the summer, eh?
Definitely need to know implications for free, iPhone customers!!!!
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On one hand, I agree… Great job… but “exit”.. that worries me. Tungle was unique in the marketplace (as far as I could see) and provided a tremendous service. I honestly HOPE RIM doesn’t mess this up. What usually happens is… acquired CEO becomes General Manager of Business Unit–or ends up working in Marketing for 6-12 months. After his lockup, he and the core technical team take some time off. They dabble in venture capital, advising, angel investment and eventually get back in the startup game. Meanwhile, their product fizzles or becomes part of some bigger solution–far different than the original intent. Tungle would be zip-zero without its users–who evangelized it by using it–forcing it on our co-workers and customers. We, the users took these great features and went around everyone else and said.. “check this out.. you can schedule a meeting with me and we don’t have to play this back and forth game”. If RIM leaves it as is or enhances it, great. But don’t turn Tungle in to Aardvark (now in obscurity), Orkut (whats that), Lala (oh yeah.. apple shut that down). But don’t make your users subscribe to a BES server just to use it.
or end up like dimdim http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/215975/salesforcecom_buys_dimdim.html
Congratulations! I hope all works out well for you.
Congrats and great news guys. Great acquisition by RIM! Very surprised and glad to get the email this morning.
Congrats!! May have to return to Blackberry
Congrats!
Congrats as well, though I hope the “Tungle” name is kept…way sexier than calling this “RIM.”
Does anyone else see the humor in tungle + rim?
Maybe I’m the only perv in the group…
Great work! I have always been a fan of Tungle, and used it to coordinate many a meeting.
I like the whole idea that Tungle is getting RIM part of the team. But I still want to use this program and I since I changed my phone, having an andriod phone now. I have not been able to get the app for aandroid now.
When will Tungle be released for Android phones.
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Congrats to Tungle and RIM both. May your future together be bright and prosperous!
Congratulations Marc!!!!! We are proud of you!!!!
A big congrats, Marc. And well deserved. You folks did it right.
Lean. Fast. Iterate often. Integrate feedback from your customers.
And it looks like (gasp!) you’re still having fun. Well done.
A liquidity event is (often) the ultimate goal of great technologies. Get the investors their upside. Validate your own vision by seeing it believed in by a much larger entity. And hell, maybe even get some serious cashola in the process.
A lovely place to be.
I hope you share your story, startup to ExitPath. We, your loving customers, are listening. Do share.
To your continued success,
ME
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Congratulations! I find Tungle extremely easy to use and absolutely love my BB. I have had great service from RIM, I am sorry for those of you who have not, I don’t think that this the norm. Most everyone I know who has a BB loves it. I look forward to the exciting new things to come from this new association.
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Congrats to the team! Well deserved!
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Hmm – Too bad it wasn’t the other way around. I have found the folks at Tungle to be extremely responsive to user input. I’ve been very impressed by the individual attention Tungle has provided in mitigating issues with the MobileMe platform. My service questions have been answered within a very reasonable amount of time and the answers actually have substance – they are genuinely helpful.
Now, on the other hand, I can say exactly the opposite about RIM. Their products are a joke. Their “service” is among the worst. I am merely waiting until the contract runs out on my Blackberry Curve so I can grind it up in a blender.
Congrats to the Tungle team for scoring buckets full of money – I am truly happy for you. You deserve it. But this ain’t good news for the rest of us.
This is a tragedy for non RIM customers who were using Tungle.me….. I’m sure RIM is not going to allow apps for other devices and probably will end the free service.
I don’t know about that. That’s what I thought would happen when RIM aquired GIST, but so far they haven’t messed that one up- and the apps are still around for iPhone, Android, etc… Guess we’ll have to wait and see.
+1 on that one. Despite the optimistic glamour around this annoucement non-BB users need to know as soon as possible if their mobile platform is still an equal priority for Tungle/RIM or if they are better looking for an alternate solution right away. We should even create a TungleWatch group on Facebook or Linkedin to share good and bad news. We could also use it to put our research of alternate services in motion just in case our nightmare comes true.
This is not paranoia, you know. Yahoo has acquired MyBlogLog a few years ago, they never developed it further and now that they close it at the end of this week, my blog is left with a big hole in the page footer. I hope RIM will be more clever.
Congratulations on the news!
Marc and team,
Congratulations, that’s great news and a great payoff for all your hard work!
Richard
Great news, Congratulations…when is the Playbook App ready?
This is not good news at all for me. I hope you guys will benefit from this acquisition but – although I have enthusiastically subscribed to your Premium services – I am still waiting for the promised ‘Tungle for Android’ app or better: the HTML5 cross-platform app “à la Basecamp” that would really be “ubiquitous within the applications [I am] already using” as you put it, Marc. It never came, however, and as for today I just wonder if it ever will. Le bonheur des uns fera-t-il le malheur des autres ?
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I always knew that Marc and the guys at Tungle would be a great Canadian startup success story. Congratulations on a well-deserved exit.
btw: If RIM does kill the iPhone version, there is always the next startup…
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Congratulations! I hope that the service will work on all platforms and that this service isn’t used as an “old school thinking” differentiator.
Way to go guys! I can wait to see what’s gonna happen next!
Well done!!! You guys deserve it. Watching your stars rise even higher now — and waiting for the next good idea that you come up with
G
I wish I could be as optimistic as the others. I wish you all the best in your new endeavor, I REALLY hope my prediction doesn’t come true. Unfortunately I feel that an acquisition by RIM will only spell doom for Tungle. I have recently had the misfortune of changing companies to one that uses blackberry exclusively and I honestly can’t see any changes in their devices since the end of the 90′s with the exception of that it is in color now. Good luck to you all.
Take a look at the roadmap for 2011 and the devices running QNX by 2012 and you just might change your doomy view.
Congrats! Don’t forget about us iPhone users.
+1
Congrats, everybody! I hope this means piles of money and resources for you guys.
Congrats to the team!
How much of a focus will RIM put on the iOS-/OSX-versions considering the loving relationship between RIM and Apple?
Cheers and good luck!
I hope you find continued success with RIM. Merging this with GIST seems like a no brainer. Glad to see business centric products are still the focus.
Congratulations guys!
Tell us what that means for the future!? Are you all staying on board?
I guess that means a bunch of new features coming our way … exciting times ahead!
Congratulations. But now can you tell us what that means for users?
Congrats on being acquiring. Your hard work has paid off and I’m sure you’re very excited. As a customer, a few questions remain.
Will the service remain free? Will it become proprietary and available only to Blackberry users?
Best of luck as you move forward
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Wow this is great news! Can’t wait to see what Tungle will bring to RIM’s next-gen productivity apps, especially combined with the recent acquisition of Gist.
Congrats to you and your team!
Congratulations, this is very good news for you guys! And its very much in line with how RIM has been heading (DataViz, then Chalk). Good luck.
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