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Old 08-11-2005, 04:21 PM   #1 (permalink)
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Battelle: Google Will Not Acquire Meetro

John Battelle: Google Will Not Acquire Meetro
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Search Engine Watch Blog[/url]]John says that the Google will not be acquiring the social networking/location-based software provider meetro. Stories and rumors about a possible acquisition have been circulating this week.
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John Battelle[/url]]I have very good confirmation that the earlier Meetro-Google rumour is false.
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So I guess this Meetro forum here at GC will be useless now if this is true.
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Meetro denies Google rumors
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This may not mean it ain't so, since companies deny rumors all the time only to later prove them right, but Meetro is insisting that reports of a Google deal to acquire the service are not true. In an interview with Randy Morin, Meetro's Wendell Davis says "We've talked with some people there — they were aware of us before the story broke — but the fact of the matter is that no acquisition is taking place."
Interview: http://www.kbcafe.com/iBLOGthere4iM/...20050811175004
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great.
Thanks for the link Randy.
Yea, meetro can stay as long as it is named "Meetro" but not "Google Meetro"...
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