Google Acquires Jaiku
Acquisition October 9th, 2007 - By Haochi
The Official Google Blog announced today that they have acquired social network and micro-blogging site Jaiku.
Jaiku is an activity stream and presence sharing service that works from the Web and mobile phones. [Jaiku | Google Q&A]
Just two weeks ago, Google snapped up Zingku, a similar service. Now Google has Dodgeball, Zingku, and Jaiku.
Google revert the service back to invite-only, you can request an invitation here.
Hehe, Googling Google noticed a pattern, “Want to be bought by Google? Add ‘ku’ to your company name.” :)
October 9th, 2007 at 6:59 pm
Interesting development.
Google just bought another technology properties instead of developing their own technology from scratch. I wonder if R&D is still pop in this huge type of company.
Thank you for sharing this news with me !
October 9th, 2007 at 7:17 pm
Well, I guess acquisitions like this is to 1) get the user base and 2) tell people that they are not copying others’ ideas, they are buying them. :)