Google Acquires Mobile Social Network Service

  • May 13, 2005
Search giant Google this week acquired Dodgeball.com, a mobile social networking service started by two graduate students who describe themselves as "Google superfans." The site allows users to set up a list of their friends, and then text message where they plan to be that evening. When users log in via mobile phones, the service informs them where their contacts are. After the acquisition, Dodgeball.com adopted Google's privacy and terms of service, and is allowing members to delete their accounts within 14 days to prevent Google from having access to their account information.

--Shankar Gupta

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