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Why Did Google Buy Jaiku?
The acquisition could signal that a Google phone is in the works.
By Kate Greene - Friday, October 12, 2007
Earlier this week, Google announced that it had acquired Jaiku, a Finnish startup that lets people broadcast short updates about their locations and activities over the Web or to their friends' cell phones, a concept called microblogging. The terms of the deal haven't been announced, but regardless of Jaiku's price tag, the purchase could be a significant one. Google has long been rumored to be working on a mobile phone, or "gPhone"; Jaiku was originally developed as software for cell phones, and one of the company's cofounders, Jyri Engeström, was a product manager at Nokia.
Jaiku's acquisition also signals that microblogging, a pastime popularized by a service called Twitter, is more than just a passing fad. |
