Posts Tagged ‘Acquisitions’
Google announces Jaiku acquisition - cut and paste?
Google itself has now officially announced that it has bought Jaiku.
Interesting thing though.. when you look at the blog entry in the blog and in the feed, you'll see a difference:
From the blog:
[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. [...]
From the feed:
[...] We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Socialite to make compelling and useful products. [...]
A minor detail, I know ;-)
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Google buys Jaiku
Apparently Google has bought microblogging service Jaiku, the Jaiku team writes:
Exciting news: Google has bought Jaiku today.
What does that mean? First and foremost, we’re of course continuing to support our existing users. So fear not: your Jaiku phone, the Web site, IM, SMS, and API will continue to work normally.
The acquisition means that Jaiku has closed for new user signups for the moment — although existing users can invite their friends.
This is great news for Jaiku users and could be Jaikus big break — as far as I've head, Twitter is by far the most popular microblogging service in the US — although Twitter really can't be labeled as 'blogging' since others can't comment on the microposts — Jaiku supports this.
Jaiku is a service that gives you 115 characters per micropost. You can either post from the Jaiku website, your instant messaging client (for instance Google Talk or from your cellphone. More about Jaiku.
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Yet another Yahoo acquisition: MyBlogLog
I have previously written about Yahoo acquisitions in 2005 and 2006, and now Yahoo has been out buying again.
This time it's MyBlogLog a service aiming to connect like-minded bloggers in communities. You just add your blog by typing in the URL/URI. Apparently MyBlogLog also has a built in statistics module, that requires you to add a single JavaScript to your blog.
Read more about Yahoo's acquisition of MyBlogLog:
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Yahoo acquisitions in 2005 and 2006
CyberNet News has an article on Yahoo Acquisitions Over the Last Two Years.
The article sums up two years of interesting Yahoo acquisitions, seven in 2005 and three in 2006.
I can honestly say that there are some acquisitions in there, that I haven't heard anything about.
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