Google, the world's No. 1 Web search company has historically maintained a steady pace of acquiring small and privately held companies over a stretch of period.
However post September 2009 Google has been in a acquisition spree, it has already acquired 9 companies post September 2009, the latest being announced on March 3rd.Here is a insight on some of the major and the recent mergers and acquisitions Google had.
The Famous ones...
In June 2004 Google acquired Baidu, which was a very promiment Chinese language search engine. The deal went through for approx. $5,000,000. The next major acquistion was of YouTube in the October 2006. YouTube was one of the most famous video sharing website. The deal was closed at approx $1,650,000,000.
The Recent ones...
Date | Company | Service Area | Google Product |
September-09 | reCAPTCHA | Security | All Products |
November-09 | AdMob | Mobile advertising | Adsense/Adword |
November-09 | Gizmo5 | VoIP | Google Voice |
November-09 | Teracent | Online Advertising | Adsense |
December-09 | AppJet (EtherPad) | Collaborative real-time editor | Google Wave |
February-10 | Aardvark | Social Search | Google Search |
February-10 | reMail | Email Search | Gmail |
March-10 | Picnik | Photo Editing | Picasa |
March-10 | DocVerse | Microsoft Office files sharing site | Google Docs |