Google Acquires Jaiku

Google recently announced that they have acquired Jaiku in an effort to step up their position in social networking.

Tony Hsieh, a product manager at Google, wrote in the official Google blog: “Although we do not have definite plans to announce at this time, we are excited about helping to drive the next round of developments in web and mobile technology.”

Some commentators have speculated that the service could be integrated into Google’s proposed G-Phone mobile operating system.

Jaiku founders Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen said that the service will continue to run normally and that Jaiku users will still be able to invite new friends.

However, new user registrations have been closed for the time being “in order to focus on innovation instead of scaling”.

Jaiku employees will be transferred to Google and will continue to work on developing the service.

Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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