google Acquisition Information Table 2001-2007
From mashable.com. Google has acquired a phone service company, GrandCentral, leading the author to believe that Google is on an acquisition spree. To this end, the authors deliberately collated all of Google's acquisitions from September 2001 to June 2007 (excluding Google's investment information), as follows:
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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