Truecaller App for android free download

Truecaller  App for android free download

Developer(s) True Software Scandinavia AB
Development status Active
Operating systems Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Series 40, Symbian and Windows Phone
Type Telephone directory, Caller ID, Social intregration, Spam blocker, Crowdsourcing
Website truecaller.com

Description:

Truecaller for android shows you unknown callers before you pick up and also allows you to block unwanted calls. You can even update your phonebook with addresses, birthdays, pictures and information from linked in and Facebook! Did we mention that you can search over a billion phone numbers globally?
Truecaller is a global phone directory application for smartphones and feature phones, and accessible via a Web site, developed by True Software Scandinavia AB. It finds contact details globally given name or telephone number, and has an integrated caller ID service using Crowdsourcing to achieve call-blocking functionality and social media integration to keep the phonebook up-to-date with pictures and birthdays. The name Truecaller comes from the app being able to show the True name of the Caller. The client is available for Android, BlackBerry OS, iOS, Series 40, Symbian, BlackBerry, and Windows Phone.
History:
Truecaller was developed by True Software Scandinavia AB, a privately held company in Stockholm, Sweden founded by Alan Mamedi and Nami Zarringhalam in 2009.
It was initially launched on Symbian and Microsoft Windows Mobile on 1 July 2009. It was released for Android and Apple iPhone on 23 September 2009, for RIM Blackberry on 27 February 2012, for Windows Phone on 1 March 2012, and for Nokia Series 40 on 3 September 2012.As of September 2012 Truecaller had five million users performing 120 million searches of the telephone number database every month. As of January 22, 2013 Truecaller reached 10 million users
Features and functionality:
The service is a global telephone directory that has caller ID, social media integration and call-blocking functionality. The application covertly uploads users' phone books and makes them part of its crowd-sourced database.
The service gains global coverage from its crowd-sourced data, which enables it to work even in countries such as the UK and India where public data is not available. The app is available in more than 100 countries worldwide.
Truecaller is available for Android, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, Nokia Symbian, Windows Phone 7, and Windows Mobile smartphones, Windows Phone 8
On 18 September 2012 Techcrunch announced that Open Ocean Capital,a venture capital fund led by former MySQL and Nokia executives (including Michael Widenius,founder of MySQL), were investing US$1.3 million in Truecaller to push Truecaller’s global reach. Truecaller said that it intended to use the new funding to expand its footprint in "key markets"—specifically North America, Asia and the Middle East.
Server Security Issues:
On 17 July 2013, Truecaller servers were allegedly hacked into by the Syrian Electronic Army. The group claimed on its twitter handle to have recovered 459 GiBs of database, primarily due to an older version of Wordpress installation on the servers. On 18 July 2013, Truecaller issued a statement on its blog stating that their servers were indeed hacked, but claiming that the attack did not disclose any passwords or credit card information.

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