Qwerly Sells Out To Fliptop, Its Main US Competitor

Mike Butcher

Mike Butcher is the European Editor for TechCrunch. A former grunge rock drummer, he became a long time journalist, and has since written for UK national newspapers and magazines including The Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph and The New Statesman. Mike is also a co-founder and shareholder of TechHub, a co-working space/service/community with several locations... → Learn More

Tuesday, November 1st, 2011
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Qwerly originally pitched itself as a ‘DNS for people’, not dissimilar to About.me. But in May it pivoted, shutting profiles in favour of doubling down on its growing API business which integrated its social data into CRM suites, customer support systems, email clients and address books. Other companies then used the data to personalize communications.

Now Qwerly has pivoted again – in the form of a sale to social intelligence provider Fliptop, Inc, based out of the US. The latter was Qwerly’s its largest competitor in Europe. Financials details of the transaction were not disclosed.