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Jamster also added to its revenues by adding "impulse purchasing" - when you downloaded one ringtone, you were offered others. This turned into interactive advertising, for which the mobile owner was charged, sometimes unknowingly. Controversy followed these services, including investigations in the United States and Europe that led to Jamba/Jamster's sale from VeriSign.
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Jamba/Jamster boomed - when VeriSign bought the business, it was making $ 15 million per quarter and 3 quarters later it was making $ 150 million a quarter - in 2005 the company made close to $ 600 million in revenue. VeriSign expanded Jamba/Jamster by the acquisitions of UNC-Embratel and
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