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Google buys social mobile startup Jaiku
- nickb 19y agoWas 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 19y agoAnother proof that the first to market is not always the winner. In case Friendster wasn't proof enough.
- adrianwaj 19y agoMaybe Jaiku is technically superior.
- zandorg 19y agoGoogle 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 19y agoMaybe Google does not want to deal with Evan Williams a second time
- nameless 19y agoI bet google does'nt want a rails app.
- nickb 19y agoI seriously doubt that. It probably came down to price. Almost all apps that Google buys have to be rewritten anyway.