Posts Tagged with ‘google-acquisition’

Today Google has acquired a Korean blogging platform Textcube owned by TNC (Tatter and Company) for an undisclosed amount. This is the first acquisition for Google in Korea.
TNC CEO describes the company as a Korean Automattic “that develops a cool blogging platform that’s favorited by the nation’s A-list bloggers, and also works closely with the open source community.” Similar to Wordpress, the company offers an open-source blogging software at Textcube.org and a recently launched hosted blogging platform at Textcube.com.
The platform [...]

So Google is in negotiations with Digg to buy the social voting site for “around $200 million”. Now what? Of course, a valid question here would be why Google is still acquiring companies offering all kinds of services when it could have been much simpler to build a similar service of their own in a matter of weeks (and there are tons of scripts allowing to launch a Digg clone available already so this is hardly any problem at [...]