The companies Google acquired year by year.

1. List the companies Google acquired year by year.Briefly describe the strategic implications of each acquisition.

Q1:

• May 30, 2007: Panoramio: Link photograph and google earth.
• May 29, 2007: GreenBorder Technologies is a maker of browser-based security software, protect the software and web application of google.
• April 2007: Tonic Systems: Add presentation sharing and collaboration capabilities to Google Docs & Spreadsheets .
• April 2007: Marratech Google plans to use the software for its employees, and has not yet announced any plans to market the videoconferencing technology.
• March 2007: Adscape Media which makes technology for placing advertisements in video games.
• March 2007: Gapminder Trendalyzer makes statistics more understandable by converting numbers into interactive animations.
• December 2006: part of Endoxon : bolster European maps.
• October 2006: YouTube for $1.65 billion :bolstered its video search engine with YouTube content.
• October 2006: JotSpot : which makes wiki technology for collaborative Web sites.
• August 2006: Neven Vision : mobile photo search.

Ref: What Google bought in the past 12 months from NetworkWorld.