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Baek Jong-jin szef Haansoft powiedział o rozmowach z Google:
„I met with Google Senior Vice President Elan Eustace last month and ThinkFree Corp. head Kang Tae-jin also held meetings twice, early this month and last week, with a Google team at its requests,’’
„Of note is that the Google team is not a business development team but a corporate development team that has been in charge of acquiring outfits such as YouTube,’’
„We hope to make a strategic alliance with Google, but the hitch is that the company does not like alliances. I heard it prefers to scoop up a company rather than cooperate with it,’’
„ThinkFree chief Kang plans to take a flight to the United States this week, and he may meet with Google officials there to discuss a deal,’’
