Meetro-Google rumor is false

by David Evans on August 12, 2005 · 4 comments

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Much speculation this week about Googles acquiring Meetroduction, which makes location-aware social networking software. Turns out it was a false alarm. There is something to be said for chatting with local people, there are already plenty of sites and services that facilitate this type of communication. Regardless, Google is on a spending spree to shore up it’s social software offerings.

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SamNo Gravatar 08.12.05 at 11:00 am
The whole meetroduction false alarm thing made me aware of how powerful RSS could be. If the news started at a blog, it must have been thru rss and got picked up and circulated around. Then internetnews picked it up, now even Sydney Morning Herald published the possible takeover.
Randy Charles MorinNo Gravatar 08.12.05 at 12:24 pm
InternetNews didn’t pick this up from the blogosphere, they claimed to know a source close to the transaction. Here’s a direct quote…

“Google is expected to announce the acquisition of Meetroduction later this week, a source close to the transaction told internetnews.com.”

SamNo Gravatar 08.13.05 at 12:39 am
Maybe the source close to / within meetroduction decided to hype up the company to inflate the asking price for other possible takeover deals.
Randy Charles MorinNo Gravatar 08.15.05 at 5:36 pm
Sam, there was no takeover deal to inflate the asking price of. It was entirely speculation.

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