Plaxo + Cardscan = Plaxscan?

Techcrunch’s article on Plaxo potentially being bought by Google got me thinking that Plaxo should have a chat to the owners of Cardscan. Cardscan make business card scanners that store your business contact data in a digital format.

I know they are hardware company at heart but they have a sophisticated web backup site and PC software. I find that I use Cardscan’s web interface now to check my business contacts and numbers more than I use the hardware device to scan cards.

The Cardscan software is arguably more important to their business than the hardware, but the price-tag of $200 million being thrown around for Plaxo would probably make it a tough sell to the parent company’s board at Newell Rubbermaid. (btw- if they merge with another company I wonder if they will end up with a name like PriceWaterhouseCoopers?)

For Google I can see how Plaxo would fit with their Grandcentral service, click a contact and phone right away etc. Lets see what happens.

Tags: cardscan, google, plaxo, techcrunch