Google buys micro-blogging Jaiku

Google is continuously moving forward in the mobile industry. The company said Tuesday that it had bought the Finnish start-up Jaiku, which makes a mobile phone users can send short messages about where they are and what they are doing.

The concept, known as micro-blogging or mobile-blogging, is also being promoted by Twitter, a San Francisco start-up.

Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku founders explained in its website:

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.

But fear not, all our Jaiku services will stay running the way you are used to and you will be able to invite your friends to Jaiku.

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