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.