The mystery buyer of the Kiko Ajax-based calendar web service turned out to be Tucows, an Internet services company with a long history of hosted freeware and shareware downloads.
Robert Scoble suggested the provided several reasons on his blog why they chose to buy Kiko: We all believe that a calendar is a very important function in the messaging suite for small businesses. Given that people don't want to maintain separate services for personal and business use, and because the line between personal and business services is getting blurrier, we felt this functionality was a big hole for us. So why didn't we build it? Well the short answer is we have so many things to do in general and so many exciting things to do with email in particular that it was just not going to be possible until at least Q2 of next year and even then the plan didn't really excite anyone around here. Among the little features, Noss touted mobile carrier integration as one factor: Kiko has a very impressive set of mobile carriers they integrate with. We were blown away when we dug into this. It will be nice to have that functionality for the calendar. We are just starting to experiment with mobile around the edges of our business and this will help things along. Noss cited Kiko founders Justin Kan and Emmett Shear in calling Kiko a feature and not a business (
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