Google announced recently about its acquisition of a Korean company, a blogging software in Korea called TNC (Tatter and Company).
A blogging and publishing platform which works along the same lines as WordPress is Textcube which is provided by TNC.
Textcube Dot Com, a hosting service was recently launched by TNC. The best of blogging and SNS is combined by Textcube Dot Com. One of the most famous Web 2.0 startups in Korea is TNC.
Co-founder of the company, Chang W. Kim, stated that the World’s sixth largest market in terms of Internet users is Korea, Google has been the underdog in this region.
To do everything on the web Yahoo-style portal services is usually been used by the Korean users. Due to this acquirement, Google created a new way to get to the customers. Kim further added that, TNC as a part of Google, will work on increasing Google’s market share.
A blogging platform similar as Automatic is offered by TNC which is easy to use, and it does work close to the open source community. The biggest difference been that WordPress is fairly unknown here, hence a big blogging market is represented by them. A lot of nation’s A-list bloggers use it. This has been one of the first Google acquisitions in Asia.
The reason for Google to acquire TNC –
The previous work of Google, Tistory blog service (belongs now to Daum as the service was sold by Google to the Korea’s #2 portal), in less than a year from launch, made to the top 10 Korean web destination, which showed some 30,000% growth over the initial 8 months.
Whereas the other blog services lately explored the idea of integrating social networks with blogs. But Textcube (link in Korean), our new blog service had already much earlier implemented the feature. Google also has great engineering talents.