Nimbuzz launches Call Management Platform – Holaa!

Nimbuzz, a New Call Telecom Group company, has announced the launch of a new call management platform, Holaa! completely developed in India by a team of 13 young developers. 

Holaa! is a multi-faceted call management platform, with first of the features being identification of caller’s name. It also presents the caller’s photo and location during an incoming call live. The app also helps block spam calls from pesky spammers or other unwanted callers. This is the first technology announcement from Nimbuzz following its recent acquisition by New Call Telecom, a fast-growing international telecom company with a growing presence in India. The acquisition marks one of the first pure mobile Internet-based successes out of India and signals the emergence of Internet technology-based global consumer brands coming out of the country.

Vikas Saxena, CEO, Nimbuzz India, said, “On an average, 4 out of 10 calls that a pre-paid mobile user receives are from unknown numbers while 1 out of these 4 unknown calls is a spam call. This makes it one of the mass market needs on smartphones today. Nimbuzz has always tried to address a mass market need, satisfying millions of users. With Nimbuzz, we did it for chatting and free VOIP calls. We hope to do the same with Holaa for call management.”

Holaa! allows users to search people’s names based on their phone numbers and alerts the registered user if the caller is marked as spam by other members of Holaa! community. It further helps users to enrich their phone book by allowing synchronization of Facebook and Google accounts into the phonebook at the same time visually enhancing it by fetching the latest photos. It keeps a tab whenever the user moves away from their home network and notifies if they wish to block calls from unknown numbers. The app regularly provides additional information about phone book contacts, which, the user can add to their directory by using the “Merge” feature. Users can also share contact information for both phone book contacts and unknown contacts with their friends using a share option allowing the sharing of names, mobile numbers, photos and e-mail addresses. Holaa! is currently available in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Persian and Portuguese and will be available on Android devices immediately.