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October 10, 2007
Google Buys Finnish Startup Jaiku
Before your alarm:clock euro could finish researching a profile of Jaiku, a Finnish startup offering a short messaging (or micro-blogging) platform that works on mobilephones, it has been acquired by Google.
Popular among some of our readers and particularly in Scandinavia, Jaiku was founded in early 2006 by Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen.
The startup was operating under the freemium business model, but it was acquired before it launched premium services.
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