List of Google acquisitions

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This is a listing of corporate acquisitions, including both companies and individual products acquired, by Google.

Acquisition Date Company/Product Business Area Value (USD) References
2001
September 20, 2001 Deja's Usenet archive Google Groups. undisclosed [1]
September 20, 2001 Outride, Inc. Spin-off from Xerox PARC. undisclosed [2]
2003
February, 2003 Pyra Labs Blogger. undisclosed [3]
April, 2003 Neotonic Software CRM technology. undisclosed [4]
April, 2003 Applied Semantics Advertising technology. $102 million [5]
September 30, 2003 Kaltix Search engine technology. undisclosed [6]
2004
May 10, 2004 Ignite Logic website creation technology. undisclosed [7]
June 23, 2004 Baidu (2.6% stake) Chinese language search engine. All shares were sold in June, 2006 $5 million [8][9]
July 13, 2004 Picasa. Photo management software. undisclosed [10]
October 27, 2004 Keyhole, Inc. Mapping software; used in Google Maps. undisclosed [11]
Sept.-Dec., 2004 Where2 Mapping software; used in Google Maps. undisclosed [12]
Sept.-Dec., 2004 ZipDash Used in Google Ride Finder. undisclosed [12]
2005
ca. 2005 2Web Technologies web-based spreadsheet. undisclosed [13]
March 28, 2005 Urchin Software Corporation Web analysis. undisclosed [14]
May 12, 2005 Dodgeball social networking. undisclosed [15]
July, 2005 Reqwireless Web browser and Mobile email. undisclosed [16]
July 7, 2005 Current Communications Group Broadband internet. $100 million (partial investment) [17]
August 17, 2005 Android Software for Handheld devices. undisclosed [18]
November, 2005 Skia Graphics software. undisclosed [19]
November 17, 2005 Akwan Information Technologies Latin American internet operations. undisclosed [20]
December 20, 2005 Time Warner AOL (5% stake) Internet. $1 billion [21]
2006
January 17, 2006 dMarc Broadcasting Radio advertising software and platform. $102 million [22]
February 14, 2006 Measure Map Blog analysis. undisclosed [23]
March 9, 2006 Upstartle Makers of Writely, online word processing. undisclosed [24]
March 14, 2006 @Last Software Makers of SketchUp, 3-D modeling. undisclosed [25]
April 9, 2006 Orion Advanced search method. undisclosed [26]
August 15, 2006 Neven Vision Photo sharing undisclosed [27]
October 31, 2006 JotSpot Website applications undisclosed [28]
November, 2006 Youtube Video sharing $1.65 billion [29]
December, 2006 Endoxon Mapping solutions $28 million [30]
2007
January, 2007 Xunlei (partial acquisition) Network, file-sharing. undisclosed [31]
February, 2007 Adscape Video game advertising $23 million [32]
March, 2007 Trendalyzer software undisclosed [33]

[edit] References

  1. ^ "Google Acquires Usenet Discussion Service and Significant Assets from Deja.com." Google (press release). February 12, 2001. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  2. ^ McCaffrey, Cindy. "Google Acquires Technology Assets of Outride Inc.." Google (press release). September 20, 2001. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  3. ^ "Google Goes Blog-Crazy." Forbes. February 18, 2003. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  4. ^ "Google acquires Neotonic Software." Search Engine Journal. June 4, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  5. ^ Farzad, Roben; Elgin, Ben; Yang, Catherine. "Googling For Gold." Business Week. December 5, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  6. ^ Tyler, Nathan. "Google Acquires Kaltix Corp.." Google (press release). September 30, 2003. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  7. ^ "Google Quietly Acquires Ignite Logic." WebProNews. May 10, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  8. ^ Thaw, Jonathan; Liu, John. "Baidu.com Shares Fall After Google Sells 2.6% Stake (Update2)." Bloomberg. June 23, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  9. ^ "Google sells all its shares in Chinese rival Baidu.com." Taipei Times. June 24, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  10. ^ "Google Acquires Picasa." Google (press release). July 13, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  11. ^ "Google Acquires Keyhole Corp." Google (press release). October 27, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  12. ^ a b "Google Form 10-K." United States Securities and Exchange Commission. For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2004. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  13. ^ Roberts, Paul. "Google bites the Big Apple." InfoWorld. June 7, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  14. ^ "Google Agrees To Acquire Urchin." Google (press release). March 28, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  15. ^ "Google buys Dodgeball." Engadget. May 12, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  16. ^ "Google turning Canada into mobile software mecca." The Register. January 10, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  17. ^ "Google invests in power-line broadband." ZDNet. July 7, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  18. ^ "Google Buys Android for Its Mobile Arsenal." Business Week. August 17, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  19. ^ Krishnan, Anne. "Google already has foothold in Triangle." The News & Observer. January 6, 2007. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  20. ^ "Google Continues International Expansion, Opens Offices in Latin America." Google (press release). November 17, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  21. ^ "Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance." Google (press release). December 20, 2005. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  22. ^ "Google Acquires dMarc Radio for $102 Million." Information Week. January 17, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  23. ^ "Here comes Measure Map." Google Blog. February 14, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  24. ^ "Google buys Web word-processing technology." CNET. March 9, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  25. ^ "Google acquires @Last Software." CNET. March 14, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  26. ^ "Google buys new algorithm?" ZDNet. April 9, 2006. Retrieved on April 4, 2007.
  27. ^ "A better way to organize photos?" Google Blog. August 15, 2006. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
  28. ^ Ames, Ben. "Google Buys JotSpot, Offers Free Wiki Pages." PC World. October 31, 2006. Retrieved on October 9, 2006.
  29. ^ La Monica, Paul R. "Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion." CNN. October 9, 2006. Retrieved on October 9, 2006.
  30. ^ Perez, Juan Carlos. "Google buys Endoxon." Info World. December 18, 2006. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
  31. ^ Staff Writer. "Google says bought stake in China's Xunlei." Reuters. January 4, 2007. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
  32. ^ Olson, Ryan. "Google Agrees to Buy Adscape." Red Herring. February 15, 2007. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.
  33. ^ Rosmarin, Rachel. "Google Buys Data Visualization Software." Forbes. March 16, 2007. Retrieved on April 2, 2007.

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