Why Hasn’t Microsoft or Google Bought Doodle?

By Joshua Kim. Doodle has become so essential that I wonder why none of the big calendar / e-mail players have bought the company. It is not hard to imagine Doodle being fully baked into Outlook or Gmail. I’m not talking integration options that Doodle already offers.  The integration may be great, but how many people take the time to make it all work? And even the best integration is sub-optimal if everyone we might want to have a meeting with has not connected the tools. Read more...