Jyri, ich wünsche viel Erfolg und alles Gute. Jaiku hat heute bekannt gebenen, dass Google das Unternehmen übernimmt. Der Gründer Jyri wird vorraussichtlich aufgrund der Zusammenarbeit nach San Francisco ziehen um das Unternehmen weiter auszubauen.

Und wieder zeigt sich, dass spannende Unternehmen nicht unbedingt in USA gelegen sein müssen. Auf die Idee und die Umsetzung kommt es an.

Jyri kommentierte die Übernahmen auf seinem Micro-Blogging Feed:

We’re joining Google because we see big potential in what we’re doing – potential that we want to realize as services that our Jaiku users love, and other mobile and Internet users too. We’re not planning to disappear: you know we use Jaiku to communicate with many of the people that are personally dear to us. While it’s too soon to comment on specific products and our development plans, we honestly believe that together with the engineers who we’ve befriended at Google we can build great new things that we couldn’t do alone.

Via Jaiku:

Google acquires Jaiku.

Jaiku is joining Google. 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. We have put together a quick Q&A about the acquisition.

Jyri Engeström and Petteri Koponen, Jaiku Founders.