ideavirus - 3:19 pm on Oct 31, 2006 (gmt 0)

Article from News.com.au [australianit.news.com.au]

GOOGLE has continued expanding its online empire, buying pioneering group JotSpot, which specialises in "wiki" collaborative web pages. Unlike Google's grand $US1.65 billion ($2.15 billion) stock deal to acquire online video-sharing website YouTube announced three weeks earlier, the JotSpot takeover was disclosed informally in a blog. Details of the JotSpot acquisition were not disclosed. "OK, I can finally blurt it out," JotSpot founder Joe Kraus wrote in a weblog posted at the JotSpot site and on Google's media information web page.

Here is the Google Posting on their blog [googleblog.blogspot.com]...

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[edited by: Brett_Tabke at 1:14 am (utc) on Nov. 1, 2006]
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