Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/10/09/google-buys-social-mobile-startup-jaiku/

by nickb • 19 years ago

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nickb2• 19 years ago

Was Twitter too expensive? I think they priced themselves out of an acquisition by going after the $5m. Jaiku probably sold for less than Twitter's Series A.

waleedka• 19 years ago

Another proof that the first to market is not always the winner. In case Friendster wasn't proof enough.

adrianwaj• 19 years ago

Maybe Jaiku is technically superior.

zandorg• 19 years ago

Google is like a 1-company bubble, where instead of the acquirer being the general public investing in an IPO, now it's the general public investing in Google, who are spending the public's money on daft startups.

That's a pretty clever workaround to Sar-Ox.

nanijoe• 19 years ago

Maybe Google does not want to deal with Evan Williams a second time

nameless• 19 years ago

I bet google does'nt want a rails app.

nickb2• 19 years ago

I seriously doubt that. It probably came down to price.

Almost all apps that Google buys have to be rewritten anyway.

Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku

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