3BILL buys Australian social network Faces.com

Tue Mar 11 2008, 20:27 PM

3BILL, a UK mobile billing company, is buying Australian social network Faces.com, as part of its rapid expansion into social networking. Only two weeks ago, 3BILL took over UK online community ProfileHeaven. The company plans to integrate the two social networks and re-launch this year, probably under the faces.com brand, says tech blog Mashable.

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News that Faces.com was shutting down appeared on the web in the last few weeks. A message on the site's homepage now says that 3BILL is now working "to resume all previous services" and warns users about probable disruptions. This is not the first Faces.com re-launch. The social network initially revamped in 2006 to include multimedia-sharing and widgets.

3BILL is a unit of the Symbios Group, a mobile content and internet conglomerate which provides services ranging from ringtones, a field where it was a pioneer in the UK, to e-commerce and mobile billing.