Forticom is an IT company based in Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...

. It is the owner of online social networks One.lv (Latvian) and One.lt (Lithuanian). 100% of Forticom is owned by Digital Sky Technologies

Digital Sky Technologies

Digital Sky Technologies or Mail.Ru Group is an international investment firm focused solely on the Internet sector. The firm was founded by Yuri Milner and emerged out of Mail.ru Group...

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One websites debuted in 1999 and offered the ability send free SMS

SMS

SMS is a form of text messaging communication on phones and mobile phones. The terms SMS or sms may also refer to:- Computer hardware :...

 text messages to mobile phones. The service became very successful as at the time texting was expensive. Later the portal grew to include other mobile services (games, ring tones, icons, etc.). The social network grew out of experimental "friends" feature of the website. The company also developed video sharing websites Videogaga.lt and Videogaga.lv.

In 2007, Forticom bought 25% of Russian Odnoklassniki. In June 2008, the company acquired 70% interest in Polish Nasza-klasa.pl

Nasza-klasa.pl

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for $92 million. Both websites are designed for former classmates.