来自mashable.com。Google已经收购了一家电话服务公司GrandCentral,使作者认为Google正处于疯狂收购期。为此,作者特意整理了Google从2001年9月至2007年6月所有收购信息(不包括Google的投资信息),如下所示:
Acquisition Date Company Description Value (USD)
2001
09-20-01 Deja’s Usenet archive Google Groups. undisclosed
09-20-01 Outride, Inc. Spin-off from Xerox PARC. undisclosed
February, 2003 Pyra Labs Blogger. undisclosed
April, 2003 Neotonic Software CRM technology. undisclosed
April, 2003 Applied Semantics Advertising technology. $102 million
September, 2003 Kaltix Search engine technology. undisclosed
October, 2003 Sprinks Paid listings unit of Primedia. undisclosed
October, 2003 Genius Labs Blogging. undisclosed
05-10-04 Ignite Logic Website creation technology. undisclosed
07-13-04 Picasa. Photo management software. undisclosed
10-27-04 Keyhole, Inc. Mapping software; used in Google Earth. undisclosed
Sept.-Dec., 2004 Where2 Mapping software; used in Google Maps. undisclosed
Sept.-Dec., 2004 ZipDash Used in Google Ride Finder. undisclosed
ca. 2005 2Web Technologies Web-based spreadsheet. undisclosed
ca. 2005 Phatbits Widgets engine. undisclosed
03-28-05 Urchin Software Corporation Web analysis. undisclosed
05-12-05 Dodgeball Social networking. undisclosed
July, 2005 Reqwireless Web browser and Mobile email. undisclosed
08-17-05 Android Software for Handheld devices. undisclosed
November, 2005 Skia Graphics software. undisclosed
11-17-05 Akwan Information Technologies Latin American internet operations. undisclosed
12-20-05 AOL (5% stake) Internet. $1 billion
01-17-06 dMarc Broadcasting Radio advertising software and platform. $102 million
02-14-06 Measure Map Blog analysis. undisclosed
03-09-06 Upstartle Writely, online word processing. undisclosed
03-14-06 @Last Software SketchUp, 3-D modeling. undisclosed
04-09-06 Orion Advanced search method. undisclosed
08-15-06 Neven Vision Computer vision undisclosed
10-31-06 JotSpot Website applications undisclosed
November, 2006 YouTube Video sharing $1.65 billion
December, 2006 Endoxon Mapping solutions $28 million
January, 2007 Xunlei (partial acquisition) Network, file-sharing. undisclosed
February, 2007 Adscape Video game advertising $23 million
March, 2007 Trendalyzer Software undisclosed
April, 2007 Tonic Systems Presentation software undisclosed
April, 2007 Marratech video conferencing software Video conferencing undisclosed
05-11-07 GreenBorder Technologies Desktop enterprise security undisclosed
06-01-07 Panoramio Geospatial Photo-sharing Service undisclosed
06-03-07 FeedBurner Online RSS Feeds $100 million
06-05-07 PeakStream Parallel Processing undisclosed
June, 2007 Zenter Presentations Software undisclosed
07-02-07 GrandCentral VOIP Phone Aggregation $45 million
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