Google: Who Do You Want To Acquire Today?

[Darren Dirt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions

(I ripped out just the "name" and "business area" columns, wow what a powerful list!)

@Last Software ==> SketchUp, 3-D modeling.
2Web Technologies ==> Web-based spreadsheet.
Adscape ==> Video game advertising
Akwan Information Technologies ==> Latin American internet operations.
Android ==> Software for Handheld devices.
AOL (5% stake) ==> Internet.
Applied Semantics ==> Advertising technology.
Baidu (2.6% stake) ==> Chinese language search engine. All shares were sold in June, 2006
Current Communications Group ==> Broadband internet.
Deja's Usenet archive ==> Google Groups.
dMarc Broadcasting ==> Radio advertising software and platform.
Dodgeball ==> Social networking.
Endoxon ==> Mapping solutions
FeedBurner ==> Online RSS Feeds
GreenBorder Technologies ==> Desktop enterprise security
Ignite Logic ==> Website creation technology.
JotSpot ==> Website applications
Kaltix ==> Search engine technology.
Keyhole, Inc. ==> Mapping software; used in Google Earth.
Marratech video conferencing software ==> Video conferencing
Measure Map ==> Blog analysis.
Neotonic Software ==> CRM technology.
Neven Vision ==> Computer vision
Orion ==> Advanced search method.
Outride, Inc. ==> Spin-off from Xerox PARC.
Panoramio ==> Geospatial Photo-sharing Service
Phatbits ==> Widgets engine.
Picasa. ==> Photo management software.
Pyra Labs ==> Blogger.
Reqwireless ==> Web browser and Mobile email.
Skia ==> Graphics software.
Tonic Systems ==> Presentation software
Trendalyzer ==> Software
Upstartle ==> Writely, online word processing.
Urchin Software Corporation ==> Web analysis.
Where2 ==> Mapping software; used in Google Maps.
Xunlei (partial acquisition) ==> Network, file-sharing.
YouTube ==> Video sharing
ZipDash ==> Used in Google Ride Finder.


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[Mr. Analog]

The acquired Picasa? That's nuts!

[Lazybones]

The acquired Picasa? That's nuts!

Ages ago.

[Darren Dirt]

Lewis Black explains the funny side of "Google Streetview"

[Darren Dirt]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions

(I ripped out just the "name" and "business area" columns, wow what a powerful list!)

@Last Software ==> SketchUp, 3-D modeling.
2Web Technologies ==> Web-based spreadsheet.
Adscape ==> Video game advertising
Akwan Information Technologies ==> Latin American internet operations.
Android ==> Software for Handheld devices.

A Very Early Preview of Android:
http://www.googletutor.com/2007/11/14/a-very-early-preview-of-android/

[Tom]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Google_acquisitions

(I ripped out just the "name" and "business area" columns, wow what a powerful list!)

@Last Software ==> SketchUp, 3-D modeling.
2Web Technologies ==> Web-based spreadsheet.
Adscape ==> Video game advertising
Akwan Information Technologies ==> Latin American internet operations.
Android ==> Software for Handheld devices.

A Very Early Preview of Android:
http://www.googletutor.com/2007/11/14/a-very-early-preview-of-android/

I've been messing with it for a week now. Downloaded it almost immediately after I heard about it (hey, who wouldn't like 25k if they had time to work on it?) The api is a little hairy. at best. The actual user interaction stuff will probably be fairly nice. Developer interaction? Lets just say its extreme beta quality