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Google acquires Zingku social networking platform

Last Updated: Friday, September 28, 2007 | 9:46 AM ET

CBC News

Google has gobbled up mobile social networking and communication platform Zingku, causing rampant speculation among Google-followers about its plans for mobile space.

Zingku released a statement Thursday saying that it had entered into an agreement to have Google acquire its service, but did not give details. Meanwhile Google has issued no formal statement.

The Wall Street Journal reported in August that Google has developed prototype cell phones that could reach the market within a year. A Google phone, much like Apple Inc.'s hotly-desired iPhone, could soon be a reality, the newspaper said.

The kind of service offered by Zingku, launched in the United States in 2005, would be crucial to any push by Google to market a mobile phone.

The service allows users to create and exchange things like invitations and "mobile flyers," via mobile phone.

It can also integrate cell phones with a personalized web site so that users can easily move things back and forth between the web and their phone.

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