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From Jaiku: We’re joining Google

October 9, 2007 by Michael Boyle

The word today is that Google has bought Jaiku, the social/presence/messaging service that competes with Twitter and others. Here’s Google’s announcement of the news from their blog. As others have noted, it’s interesting that GOOG chose Jaiku over Twitter, which was co-founded by a guy (Evan Williams) who co-founded an earlier Google acquisition, Blogger.

Tags: Google, Mobile, SMS, Social Networks

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