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Google
Since 2001, Google has acquired several small start-up companies.
Google
In 2004, Google acquired a company called Keyhole, Inc. , which developed a product called Earth Viewer which was renamed in 2005 to Google Earth.
History of Google
Since 2001, Google has acquired several small start-up companies, often consisting of innovative teams and products.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004.
List of acquisitions by Google
As of September 2008, Google has acquired 54 companies.
Keyhole
Keyhole, Inc. was a company acquired by Google
ImageAmerica
ImageAmerica is an aerial photography company that was acquired by Google in July 2007.
ImageAmerica
When the company was acquired by Google, the acquisition price was not disclosed.
ImageAmerica
In the same month, Google was on an acquisition-spree and had already acquired six other companies: Panoramio, PeakStream, Zenter, Feedburner, GrandCentral, and Postini.
List of Google products
Web-based word processor created by software company Upstartle, who were acquired by Google on March 9, 2006.
Adscape
Google acquired the company primarily because of some of the patents that Adscape holds.
Keyhole, Inc
Keyhole, Inc, founded in 2001, was a pioneering software development company specializing in geospatial data visualization applications and was acquired by Google in 2004.
Sepandar Kamvar
In early 2003, he dropped out of his Ph.D. program at the age of 25 to found Kaltix, a personalized search engine company which was acquired by Google later that year [3].
Urchin Software Corporation
Sales steadily rose through spring 2005, when the company was acquired by Google.
Endoxon
Endoxon is a mapping company that was acquired by Google in December 2006.
Pyra Labs
The company was acquired by Google in 2003.
List of University of Michigan alumni
Kevin O'Connor (BS EE 1983) - Founder of DoubleClick, which was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion
Online advertising
It should be noted that Google acquired DoubleClick in 2007 for a consideration of $3,100 million.
DoubleClick
In March 2008, Google formally acquired DoubleClick.
Kevin P. Ryan
DoubleClick was acquired by Google for $3.1 billion in March of 2008.
Ad exchange
This explains why Yahoo purchased RightMedia and Google acquired DoubleClick in 2007.
List of Google products
Google acquired the software from creator Marratech on April 19, 2007.
Urchin (software)
While Urchin Software Corp. was acquired by Google in April 2005, the Urchin 5 and prior analysis programs are still widely used and available today.
Hans Rosling
In March 2007 Google acquired the Trendalyzer software with the intention to scale it up and make it freely available for public statistics.
Marratech
In 2007, Marratech's video conference software was acquired by Google.
History of Google
Also in September, Google acquired the mobile social networking site, Zingku.mobi, to "provide people worldwide with direct access to Google applications, and ultimately the information they want and need, right from their mobile devices."
Web 2.0
In 2006 Google, Inc. acquired one of the best-known sites of this broad class, Writely.
Android (mobile device platform)
In July 2005, Google acquired Android, Inc., a small startup company based in Palo Alto, CA.
Andy Rubin
Disillusionment with his ouster as CEO of Danger motivated him to found Android, which was later acquired by Google and led to Rubin's current position with the firm.
Hilltop
Hilltop algorithm, an algorithm used to find topic-relevant documents to a particular keyword topic, acquired by Google
Hilltop algorithm
Google acquired the algorithm in February, 2003.
History of Google
In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of Blogger, a pioneering and leading web log hosting website.
Blogger (service)
In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms.
Google Earth
Google Earth is a virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer, and was created by Keyhole, Inc, a company acquired by Google in 2004.
Keyhole Markup Language
It was created by Keyhole, Inc, which was acquired by Google in 2004.
List of University of California, Berkeley alumni
Craig Walker, B.A. 1988, J.D. 1995 - Co-founder and CEO of Internet software company GrandCentral (acquired by Google for $50 million)
John Hanke
John Hanke is the founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth.
Deja News
The archives were acquired by Google and reintroduced as Google Groups.
Archive site
On February 12 2001 Google acquired the Usenet discussion group archives from Deja.com and turned it into their Google Groups service.
Google Video
Despite constant product development and business development churn, Google Video had never attained market leadership in the online video space at the time when Google acquired YouTube.
Jawed Karim
When YouTube was acquired by Google, Karim received 137,443 shares of stock, worth about $64 million as of Google's closing stock price at the time.
Compound term processing
In 2004 Anna Lynn Patterson filed a number of patents on the subject of "Phrase based indexing and retrieval" and to which Google subsequently acquired the rights.
Concept Searching Limited
Its interesting to contrast conceptSearching's "Compound Term Processing" with the patents for "Phrase based indexing and retrieval" filed by Anna Lynn Patterson in 2004, and to which Google subsequently acquired the rights.
April 1, 2005
MozillaNews reports that Google will be acquiring the Mozilla Foundation, as a whole.
April Fools Day 2005
MozillaNews reports that Google will be acquiring the Mozilla Foundation, as a whole.
Zingku
Zingku is a mobile social network service that was acquired by Google in September 2007.
Keyhole
Keyhole, Inc. was a company acquired by Google
Xunlei
On January 5, 2007, Google acquired a 4% stake for a reported $5 million in the company that developed Xunlei, with hopes of expanding Google's market base in China.
Social network service
First there was Friendster (which Google tried to acquire in 2003), then, MySpace, and finally, Bebo.
Hartmut Neven
Neven Vision pioneered mobile visual search for camera phones and was acquired by Google in 2006 .
Knol
Hansson reported that several sources close to the sale said Google was planning to acquire About.com, but the executives at About.com learned Google was planning to move from About.com's model to a wiki-style model.
Stream processing
PeakStream, a spinout of the Brook project (acquired by Google in June 2007)
Zenter
Zenter is a presentation program that was acquired by Google in June 2007.
Usenet
In 2001, this database was acquired by Google.
List of acquisitions by Google
The majority of the companies acquired by Google are based in the United States, and in turn, a large percentage of these companies are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area.
ImageAmerica
ImageAmerica is an aerial photography company that was acquired by Google in July 2007.
Panoramio
On May 30 2007, Google announced plans to acquire the website, and Panoramio was acquired by Google on July 2007.
Zingku
Zingku is a mobile social network service that was acquired by Google in September 2007.
Google Groups
In February 2001, Google acquired Deja News, which provided a search engine to access an archive of Usenet newsgroup articles.
Adscape
Adscape is a San Francisco in-game advertising company that was acquired by Google in February 2007.
Adscape
Google has acquired Adscape Media
Zenter
Zenter is a presentation program that was acquired by Google in June 2007.
Google Translate
To acquire this huge amount of linguistic data, Google used United Nations documents.
Evan Williams (blogger)
Pyra survived despite the departure of Hourihan and other employees, and was eventually acquired by Google on February 17, 2003.
John Hanke
John Hanke is the founder and CEO of Keyhole, Inc., which was acquired by Google in 2004 and whose flagship product was renamed to Google Earth.
History of Google
Also in September, Google acquired the mobile social networking site, Zingku.mobi, to "provide people worldwide with direct access to Google applications, and ultimately the information they want and need, right from their mobile devices."
Kaltix
On September 30 2003, Kaltix was acquired by Google for an undisclosed figure.
History of Google
In early 2006, Google acquired Upstartle, a company responsible for the online collaborative word processor, Writely.
Rambler (portal)
On July 18 2008 it was announced that Google acquires Begun, part of Rambler Media and one of the biggest Russian context advertising service for $140 million.
History of Google
In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, owner of Blogger, a pioneering and leading web log hosting website.
Henry Spencer
His records from that period were eventually acquired by Google to provide an archive of Usenet in the 1980s.
Picasa
In July 2004, Google acquired Picasa and began offering Picasa for free download.
Rambler (portal)
On July 18 2008 it was announced that Google acquires Begun, part of Rambler Media and one of the biggest Russian context advertising service for $140 million.
Dodgeball (service)
Dodgeball was founded in 2000 by New York University students Dennis Crowley and Alex Rainert, and was acquired by Google in 2005.
Endoxon
Endoxon is a mapping company that was acquired by Google in December 2006.
Google
Also in 2007, Google acquired Postini and continued to sell the acquired technology as Google Security Services.
Dulance
In April 2006, Dulance was acquired by Google, [1] [2] and apparently shut-down.
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