Google Acquires Finnish Mobile Start-up Company Jaiku

Google and Jaiku both announce their partnership. Jaiku, is a mobile start-up company that develops useful and innovative applications for both computer and mobile phone.

Google blog writes that, "Current Jaiku users can still use the service normally, and new folks can sign up for an invitation to the service when we're ready to expand. We plan to use the ideas and technology behind Jaiku to make compelling and useful products. Although we don't have definite plans to announce at this time, we're excited about helping drive the next round of developments in web and mobile technology."

On the other hand, Jaiku also writes, "While it’s too soon to comment on specific plans, we look forward to working with our new friends at Google over the coming months to expand in ways we hope you'll find interesting and useful. Our engineers are excited to be working together and enthusiastic developers lead to great innovation. We look forward to accomplishing great things together. In order to focus on innovation instead of scaling, we have decided to close new user sign-ups for now."

For more information on Jaiku, visit Q & A.

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