May 9, 2008 at 2:51 pm · Authored by Ewan · Filed under Mobile

Good news and a pat on the back for Viigo, the chaps behind the rather wicked Blackberry RSS reading application. They’ve just got $1.5m in funding (so, $8m between friends, yes?) from RBC Venture Partners.

I’ve been using their news reader on my Blackberry for quite a while and I’m very much looking forward to ‘Project Tango’ which is heading into public beta in 38 days (June, basically).

In case you need a quick Viigo primer, here we go:

Viigo Inc. develops and markets one of the world’s most popular mobile content and services applications for smartphones. With over 5,000 channels and information services, Viigo customers around the world enjoy up-to-the-minute access to news, weather, sports, market performance, entertainment, and blogs in one intuitive, simple, freely downloadable application.

Right on. Bring on Tango!