Spray Network

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Spray Network AB is a Swedish Internet company that runs the web portal spray.se. Spray was founded in 1995, [1] was bought by Lycos Europe, but was sold to Allers in 2006. [2] [3] As of 2006 spray.se has about 750 000 visitors per week. [2]

In 2004 Spray bought the Swedish Internet service business from Tiscali. [4] [5] The telecom subsidiary, Spray Telekom was later sold to Glocalnet in 2007. [6]

It is the owner of Spray Date.

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