Google近三個月劈啪「併聘」(acquhire)至少三間網路公司，對創業投資與創業家帶來的影響？
Garfield
這星期有一間被Y-Combinator投資的公司「reMail」宣佈剛剛被Google併購掉。前者做的是在iPhone手機上面可以搜尋
email的應用程式，創辦人是從前在Gmail專案工作過的工程師，表面上看起來，Google只是併購一間小小的軟體公司，買下它的「搜尋」軟體，
和「email」也有關連，金額不詳，但這樁併購案好像「有點奇怪」。
他們發現，Google竟然在過去短短三個月不滿，就已經用類似的手法整併了三家超小公司的產品，除了「reMail」，還有AppJet、
Aardvark。像GigaOm和其他評論者已經開始大量使用另一個字來形容這種「併購」，稱之為「併聘」(acquhire)，也就是「併購」
(acquire)加上「聘用」(hire)。
這是什麼意思呢？
Jason Liu
reMail Acquired by Google
Posted by Gabor on February 17th 2010 21:37
I'm thrilled to announce that Google has acquired reMail! I will be joining Google in Mountain View as a Product Manager on the Gmail team.
Gmail is where my obsession with email started as an engineering intern back in 2004, and I'm thrilled to be coming back to a place with so many familiar faces. reMail's goal was reimagine mobile email, and I'm proud we have built a product that so many users find useful. Still, I feel like we've only seen the beginning of what's possible. Google is the best place in the world to improve the status quo on how people communicate and share information. If you have what it takes to make these changes happen, I encourage you to reach out and come join me.
You might be wondering what will happen with reMail's product. Google and reMail have decided to discontinue reMail's iPhone application, and we have removed it from the App Store. reMail is an application on your phone. If you already have reMail, it will continue to work. We'll even provide support for you until the end of March, and we've enabled all paid reMail features for you: You can activate these by clicking "Restore Purchases" inside the app. reMail downloads email directly from your email provider to your phone, and your personal information, passwords, and email are never sent to or stored on our servers.
I want to take this opportunity to thank the people that helped make reMail a success. Fabian Siegel, Einar Vollset, Sridhar Srinivasan, Paul Bohm, Marissa Coughlin, Erol Koc, Matt Ronge, and Stefano Barbato have all contributed to building a great product. Our investors saw the potential in improving mobile email and took a bet on reMail in the darkest days of the recession. I couldn't be more grateful to YCombinator: Paul Graham, Jessica Livingston, Kate Courteau, and Trevor Blackwell all have provided invaluable guidance. Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful. It worked.
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