“Cupertino-based computing giant [Apple Inc.] is rumored to be a likely buyer of the domain iCloud.com,” Om Malik reports for GigaOM.
“Until recently, iCloud.com was a domain name and a storage-as-a-cloud service owned by Linkoping, Sweden-based desktop-as-a-service company, Xcerion,” Malik reports. “Xcerion’s iCloud service has just been rebranded to CloudMe, and the company acquired the CloudMe.com domain on April 5, 2011.”
Malik reports, “My source, who is familiar with the company, says that Xcerion has sold the domain to Apple for about $4.5 million.”
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[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Brawndo Drinker” for the heads up.]