ABOUT GOOGLE
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that
specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online
advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and
hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside
Amazon, Apple, and Facebook.
CEO: Sundar Pichai (Oct
2, 2015)
Parent
organization: Alphabet Inc. (2015)
Founded: September
4, 1998, Menlo Park,
California, United States
Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one
company per week in 2010 and 2011.[1] The
table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed
being for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified.
The acquisition date
listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the acquisition subject.
As Google is headquartered in the United States, acquisition is listed in US dollars. If the price of an acquisition is
unlisted, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from
the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here. Goo
gle itself was re-organized into a subsidiary of a larger
holding company known as Alphabet Inc. in
2015.
As of December 2016, Alphabet has acquired over 200
companies, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola
Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion.
Most of the firms acquired by Google are based in the United States, and, in
turn, most of these are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. To date, Alphabet has
divested itself of four[2] business
units: Former’s,
which was sold back to Arthur Former in April 2012;[3] Sketch
Up, which was sold to Trimble in April 2012,[] Boston
Dynamics in early 2016 and Google Radio Automation, which was sold to Wide
Orbit in 2009.
Many Google products originated as
services provided by companies that Google has since acquired. For example,
Google's first acquisition was the Usenet company
Deja News, and its services became Google Groups.
Similarly, Google acquired Dodge ball, a social networking service company,
and eventually replaced it with Google Latitude.
Other acquisitions include web application company
Jot Spot, which became Google Sites; Voice over IP company
Grand Central, which became Google Voice;
and video hosting service company Next New
Networks, which became YouTube Next Lab and Audience
Development Group. CEO Larry Page has explained that potential
acquisition candidates must pass a sort of "toothbrush test": Are
their products potentially useful once or twice a day, and do they improve your
life?[6]
Following the acquisition of Israel-based startup Waze in June 2013,
Google submitted a 10-Q filing with the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC)
that revealed that the corporation spent $1.3 billion on acquisitions during
the first half of 2013, with $966 million of that total going to Waze.
Google wants to make its employees' lives
easier, and it's constantly searching for ways to improve the health,
well-being, and morale of its Googlers. Google offers on-site
physicians, nurses, medical services and health care coverage to keep its
employees happy and healthy
Google Maps is a web
mapping service developed by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial
photography, street maps, 360° interactive panoramic views of streets,
real-time traffic conditions, and route planning for traveling by foot, car,
bicycle and air, or public transportation. Wikipedia
Date launched: February 8, 2005
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