Google has acquired a small start up called Katango, as we had predicted sometime back. Katango, founded over a year ago, automatically organizes people’s social contacts. It will power the Circles feature of Google’s social networking product Google+. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.   Katango was primarily focused on Facebook and it had launched an I-Phone app in July, which after...

Google is at it again – acquiring companies. Ripe after the acquisition of Zagat, a restaurant review portal, Google has turned its eyes towards Katango, a startup that automatically sorts your friends into different groups, with very little input required from the user. Katango uses a set of patent-pending algorithms to sort your friends into different lists based on your interaction with your...