Google is an Internet company, gain success with search engines. This has resulted in significant cash used for acquisition of many companies, allowing it to maintain technology and marketing. Here are some descriptions about history of Google acquisitions from year to year;
In 2004
Google acquired Keyhole, Inc., a start-up companies develop a product called Earth Viewer which provides 3-D views of Earth.
In 2005
Google renames Keyhole, Inc., a start-up companies develop a product called Earth Viewer which provides 3-D views of Earth service to "Google Earth". in the same year, Google partnered with NASA Ames Research Center to build 1 million square feet (93,000 m2) of office. The offices will be used for research projects involving large-scale data management, nanotechnology, distributed computing, and aerospace industries. Also in this year, Google partnership also includes the new financing. Mobi top-level domain for mobile devices, along with other companies including Microsoft, Nokia, and Ericsson. Google then will launch the "Adsense for Mobile", taking advantage of the mobile advertising market emerged. Improving their ads reach further, Google and Fox Interactive Media of News Corporation signed an agreement $ 900000000 to provide search and advertising on the popular social networking site MySpace.
October 2005
Google entered into a partnership with Sun Microsystems to help share and distribute each other's technologies. The company is also partnered with AOL Time Warner, to enhance each other's video search services.
October 2006
Google announced that it has acquired video sharing site YouTube for U.S. $ 1.65 billion.
November 13, 2006
Google had finalized a deal with YouTube and did not give detailed figures for the cost of running YouTube.
In 2007
YouTube revenue is recorded as "not material" in the rules and regulations. In same year, Google began sponsoring the NORAD Tracks Santa, a service that pretends to follow the progress of Santa Claus' on Christmas Eve, using Google Earth to "track Santa" in 3-D for the first time, displacing the former AOL and sponsors. Google's YouTube to provide NORAD Tracks Santa's own channels. still in the same year, Google bought GrandCentral for $ 50 million. then this site will be changed to Google Voice.
April 13, 2007
Google reached an agreement to buy DoubleClick for $ 3.1 billion.
In 2008
Google developed a partnership with GeoEye to launch satellites that provide Google with a high resolution (0.41 m monochrome, color 1.65 m) imagery to Google Earth. Google also announced this year hosting archive photos of Life Magazine as part of a new partnership. Some photos in the archive was never published in the magazine. The photos are watermarked and copyright notice originally posted on all photos, regardless of the status of the public domain.
June 2008
an article in Forbes magazine YouTube projecting revenue in 2008 amounted to U.S. $ 200 million, records show progress in ad sales.
September 6, 2008
Satellite (partnership between Google and GeoEye) launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
August 5, 2009
Google bought the first public company, the purchase of software maker On2 Technologies' video to $ 106,500,000. Google also acquired Aardvark, a social network search engines, for $ 50 million, and commented on their internal blog, "we look forward to working together to see where we can accept it".
In 2010
Google first investment in renewable-energy projects, put $ 38,800,000 into two wind farm in North Dakota. The company announced the two sites will generate 169.5 megawatts of power, or enough to supply 55,000 homes. Also in 2010, Google bought Global IP Solutions, a Norway-based company that provides web-based teleconferencing and other related services. This acquisition will enable Google to add phone service to the list-style products.
April 2010
Google announced it had acquired the startup hardware, Agnilux.
May 27, 2010
Google announced it had also closed the acquisition of mobile advertising network, AdMob. Purchase this happens the day after the Federal Trade Commission closed the investigation into the purchase. Google acquired the company for an undisclosed amount.
In July 2010
Google signed an agreement with Iowa wind farm to buy 114 megawatts of energy for 20 years.
April 4, 2011
Globe and Mail reported that Google offer of $ 900-million for the six thousand patent Nortel Networks.
* for the table lists acquisitions by google can be found here
summarized from various sources
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