Google was in a perfect position to dominate the mobile messaging and social networking markets while they were still in their infancy, but because it was too slow to act, it missed both of those opportunities and has been struggling to establish a significant foothold in those markets ever since. Fortunately, if a company as large as Google fails in a certain market, it can just acquire a smaller company that succeeded in it, and a report out of Russia on Thursday claims that Google wants to do exactly that by acquiring Telegram. However, the popular messaging app has since denied that report, claiming that it’s not even in discussions with Google, let alone working on an acquisition deal.
