Google Acquisitions

Google Acquisition Activity

This article from Wikipedia that the change in the Landscape of Google has been Enormous and if according to this data, Google will stop at nowhere and at no cost. With more than 140+ acquisitions, Google is one of the biggest companies in the world and if this continues, Google will end up owning the Internet!!!

Did You Know : On an average, Google has been acquiring more than one company per week. 

Here's a list of all the Companies acquired by Google:

Number	Acquisition date	Company	Business	Country	Price	Used as or integrated with	Ref(s).
1	February 12, 2001	Deja	Usenet	USA	—	Google Groups	[7]
2	September 20, 2001	Outride	Web search engine	USA	—	Google Personalized Search	[8]
3	February 2003	Pyra Labs	Weblog software	USA	—	Blogger	[9]
4	April 2003	Neotonic Software	Customer relationship management	USA	—	Google Groups, Gmail	[10]
5	April 2003	Applied Semantics	Online advertising	USA	$102,000,000	AdSense, AdWords	[11]
6	September 30, 2003	Kaltix	Web search engine	USA	—	iGoogle	[12]
7	October 2003	Sprinks	Online advertising	USA	—	AdSense, AdWords	[13]
8	October 2003	Genius Labs	Blogging	USA	—	Blogger	[14]
9	May 10, 2004	Ignite Logic	HTML editor	USA	—	Google Sites	[15]
10	July 13, 2004	Picasa	Image organizer	USA	—	Picasa, Blogger	[16]
11	September 2004	ZipDash	Traffic analysis	USA	—	Google Maps	[17]
12	October 2004	Where2	Map analysis	AUS	—	Google Maps	[18]
13	October 27, 2004	Keyhole, Inc	Map analysis	USA	—	Google Maps, Google Earth	[19]
14	March 28, 2005	Urchin Software Corporation	Web analytics	USA	—	Google Analytics	[20]
15	May 12, 2005	Dodgeball	Social networking service	USA	—	Google Latitude	[21]
16	July 19, 2005	Akwan Information Technologies	Search engines	BRA	—	Internet backbone	[22]
17	July 2005	Reqwireless	Mobile browser	CAN	—	Google Mobile	[23]
18	July 7, 2005	Current Communications Group	Broadband Internet access	USA	$100,000,000	Internet backbone	[24]
19	August 17, 2005	Android	Mobile software	USA	$50,000,000	Android	[25][26]
20	November 2005	Skia	Graphics software	USA	—	Android, Google Chrome	[27]
21	December 27, 2005	Phatbits	Widget engine	USA	—	Google Desktop	[28]
22	December 31, 2005	allPAY GmbH	Mobile software	GER	—	Google Mobile	[29]
23	December 31, 2005	bruNET GmbH	Mobile software	GER	—	Google Mobile	[29]
24	January 17, 2006	dMarc Broadcasting	Advertising	USA	$102,000,000	AdSense	[30]
25	February 14, 2006	Measure Map	Weblog software	USA	—	Google Analytics	[31]
26	March 9, 2006	Upstartle	Word processor	USA	—	Google Docs	[32]
27	March 14, 2006	@Last Software	3D modeling software	USA	—	Google Sketchup	[33]
28	April 9, 2006	Orion	Web search engine	AUS	—	Google Search	[34]
29	June 1, 2006	2Web Technologies	Online spreadsheets	USA	—	Google Spreadsheet	[35][36]
30	August 15, 2006	Neven Vision Germany GmbH	Computer vision	GER	—	Picasa, Google Goggles	[37]
31	October 9, 2006	YouTube	Video sharing	USA	$1,650,000,000	YouTube	[38][39]
32	October 31, 2006	JotSpot	Web application	USA	—	Google Sites	[40]
33	December 18, 2006	Endoxon	Mapping	CHE	$28,000,000	Google Maps	[41]
34	February 16, 2007	Adscape	In-game advertising	USA	$23,000,000	AdSense	[42]
35	March 16, 2007	Trendalyzer	Statistical software	SWE	—	Google Analytics	[43]
36	April 17, 2007	Tonic Systems	Presentation program	USA	—	Google Docs	[44]
37	April 19, 2007	Marratech	Videoconferencing	SWE	$15,000,000	Google Talk, Google Hangouts	[45]
38	April 13, 2007	DoubleClick	Online advertising	USA	$3,100,000,000	AdSense	[46][47][48]
39	May 11, 2007	GreenBorder	Computer security	USA	—	Google Chrome	[49]
40	June 1, 2007	Panoramio	Photo sharing	ESP	—	Panoramio	[50]
41	June 3, 2007	FeedBurner	Web feed	USA	$100,000,000	FeedBurner	[51]
42	June 5, 2007	PeakStream	Parallel processing	USA	—	Android	[52]
43	June 19, 2007	Zenter	Presentation program	USA	—	Google Docs	[53]
44	July 2, 2007	GrandCentral	Voice over IP	USA	$45,000,000	Google Voice	[54][55]
45	July 20, 2007	ImageAmerica	Aerial photography	USA	—	Google Maps	[56]
46	July 9, 2007	Postini	Communications security	USA	$625,000,000	Gmail	[57]
47	September 27, 2007	Zingku	Social networking service	USA	—	Google Mobile	[58]
48	October 9, 2007	Jaiku	Microblogging	FIN	—	Google Mobile	[59]
49	July 30, 2008	Omnisio	Online video	USA	$15,000,000	YouTube	[60]
50	September 12, 2008	TNC	Weblog software	KOR	—	Blogger	[61]
51	August 5, 2009	On2	Video compression	USA	$133,000,000	WebM, YouTube	[62]
52	September 16, 2009	reCAPTCHA	Security	USA	—	Google Books	[63]
53	November 9, 2009	AdMob	Mobile advertising	USA	$750,000,000	DoubleClick, Invite Media	[64]
54	November 9, 2009	Gizmo5	Voice over IP	USA	$30,000,000	Google Talk, Google Hangouts	[65]
55	November 23, 2009	Teracent	Online advertising	USA	—	AdSense	[66]
56	December 4, 2009	AppJet	Collaborative real-time editor	USA	—	Google Wave, Google Docs	[67]
57	February 12, 2010	Aardvark	Social search	USA	$50,000,000	Aardvark	[68]
58	February 17, 2010	reMail	Email search	USA	—	Gmail	[69]
59	March 1, 2010	Picnik	Photo editing	USA	—	Picasa	[70][71]
60	March 5, 2010	DocVerse	Microsoft Office files sharing site	USA	$25,000,000	Google Docs	[72]
61	April 2, 2010	Episodic	Online video platform start-up	USA	—	YouTube	[73]
62	April 12, 2010	PlinkArt	Visual search engine	UK	—	Google Goggles	[74]
63	April 20, 2010	Agnilux	Server CPUs	USA	—	Android	[75]
64	April 27, 2010	LabPixies	Gadgets	ISR	—	iGoogle, Android	[76]
65	April 30, 2010	BumpTop	Desktop environment	CAN	$30,000,000	Android	[77]
66	May 18, 2010	Global IP Solutions	Video and audio compression	US	$68,200,000	WebRTC	[78]
67	May 20, 2010	Simplify Media	Music streaming	US	—	Android	[79]
68	May 21, 2010	Ruba.com	Travel	USA	—	Google	[80]
69	June 3, 2010	Invite Media	Advertising	USA	$81,000,000	DoubleClick	[81]
70	July 1, 2010	ITA Software	Travel technology	USA	$676,000,000	Google Flights	[82]
71	July 16, 2010	Metaweb	Semantic search	USA	—	Google Search	[83]
72	August 2010	Zetawire	Mobile payment, NFC	CAN	—	Android, Google Wallet, Google Checkout	[84]
73	August 4, 2010	Instantiations	Java/Eclipse/AJAX developer tools	USA	—	Google Web Toolkit	[85][86]
74	August 5, 2010	Slide.com	Social gaming	USA	$228,000,000	Google+, Orkut, Google Play	[87]
75	August 10, 2010	Jambool	Social Gold payment	USA	$70,000,000	Google+, Orkut	[88]
76	August 15, 2010	Like.com	Visual search engine	USA	$100,000,000	Google Offers	[89][90]
77	August 30, 2010	Angstro	Social networking service	USA	—	Google, Google Alert	[91]
78	August 30, 2010	SocialDeck, Inc.	Social gaming	CAN	—	Google, Google+	[92]
79	September 13, 2010	Quiksee	Online video	ISR	$10,000,000	Google Maps	[93]
80	September 28, 2010	Plannr	Schedule management	USA	—	Google+	[94][95]
81	October 1, 2010	BlindType	Touch typing	GRE	—	Android	[96][97]
82	December 3, 2010	Phonetic Arts	Speech synthesis	UK	—	Google Voice, Google Translate	[98]
83	December 3, 2010	Widevine Technologies	DRM	USA	—	Google TV	[99]
84	January 13, 2011	eBook Technologies	E-book	USA	—	Google Books	[100]
85	January 25, 2011	SayNow	Voice recognition	USA	—	Google Voice	[101]
86	January 26, 2011	fflick	Social networking service	USA	$10,000,000	YouTube	[102][103]
87	March 1, 2011	Zynamics	Security	GER	—	Google	[104][105]
88	March 7, 2011	BeatThatQuote.com	Price comparison service	UK	£37,700,000	Google Advisor	[106][107]
89	March 7, 2011	Next New Networks	Online video	USA	—	YouTube	[108]
90	March 16, 2011	Green Parrot Pictures	Digital video	IRL	—	YouTube	[109]
91	April 8, 2011	PushLife	Service provider	CAN	$25,000,000	Google	[110]
92	April 26, 2011	TalkBin	Mobile software	USA	—	Android	[111]
93	May 23, 2011	Sparkbuy	Product search	USA	—	Google Shopping	[112]
94	June 3, 2011	PostRank	Social media analytics service	CAN	—	Google	[113]
95	June 9, 2011	Admeld	Online advertising	USA	$400,000,000	DoubleClick, Invite Media	[114][115]
96	June 18, 2011	SageTV	Media center	USA	—	GoogleTV
97	July 8, 2011	Punchd	Loyalty program	USA	—	Google Offers	[116][117]
98	July 21, 2011	Fridge	Social groups	USA	—	Google+	[118]
99	July 23, 2011	PittPatt	Facial recognition system	USA	—	Android	[119][120]
100	August 1, 2011	Dealmap	One deal a day service	USA	—	Google Offers	[121]
101	August 15, 2011	Motorola Mobility	Mobile device manufacturer	USA	$12,500,000,000	Android, Google TV, Patent portfolio	[122]
102	September 7, 2011	Zave Networks	Digital coupons	USA	—	Google Offers	[123]
103	September 8, 2011	Zagat	Restaurant reviews	USA	$151,000,000	Google Places, Google Maps	[124][125][126]
104	September 19, 2011	DailyDeal	One deal a day service	GER	$114,000,000	Google Offers	[127]
105	October 11, 2011	SocialGrapple	Social media analytics service	CAN	—	Google+	[128]
106	November 10, 2011	Apture	Instantaneous search	USA	—	Google Search	[129]
107	November 14, 2011	Katango	Social circle organization	USA	—	Google+	[130]
108	December 9, 2011	RightsFlow	Music rights management	USA	—	YouTube	[131]
109	December 13, 2011	Clever Sense	Mobile apps	USA	—	Android	[132]
110	March 16, 2012	Milk, Inc	Social networking service	USA	—	Google+	[133]
111	April 2, 2012	TxVia	Online Payment	USA	—	Google Wallet, Google Checkout	[134]
112	June 4, 2012	Meebo	Instant Messaging	USA	$100,000,000	Google Hangouts	[135]
113	June 5, 2012	Quickoffice	Productivity Suite	USA	—	Google Docs	[136]
114	July 20, 2012	Sparrow	Mobile apps	FRA	$25,000,000	Gmail	[137][138][139]
115	2012	WIMM Labs	Android powered smartwatches	USA	—	Android	[140]
116	August 1, 2012	Wildfire Interactive	Social media marketing	USA	$450,000,000	Google, Google+	[141]
117	September 7, 2012	VirusTotal.com	Security	ESP	—	Google	[142][143]
118	September 17, 2012	Nik Software, Inc.	Photography	USA	—	Google, Android	[144][145][146]
119	October 1, 2012	Viewdle	Facial recognition	UKR	$45,000,000	Android	[147][148]
120	November 28, 2012	Incentive Targeting Inc.	Digital coupons	USA	—	Google Offers	[149][150]
121	November 30, 2012	BufferBox	Package delivery	CAN	$17,000,000	Google Shopping, Android	[151][152]
122	February 6, 2013	Channel Intelligence	Product ecommerce	USA	$125,000,000	Google Shopping
123	March 12, 2013	DNNresearch Inc.	Deep Neural Networks	CAN	—	Google, Google X	[153]
124	March 15, 2013	Talaria Technologies	Cloud computing	USA	—	Google Cloud	[154]
125	April 12, 2013	Behavio	Social Prediction	USA	—	Google Now	[155]
126	April 23, 2013	Wavii	Natural Language Processing	USA	$30,000,000	Google Knowledge Graph	[156]
127	May 23, 2013	Makani Power	Airborne wind turbines	USA	—	Google X	[157]
128	June 11, 2013	Waze	GPS navigation software	ISR	$966,000,000	Google Maps	[6]
129	September 16, 2013	Bump	Mobile software	USA	—	Android	[158]
130	October 2, 2013	Flutter	Gesture recognition technology	USA	$40,000,000	Google, Android, Google X	[159]
131	October 22, 2013	FlexyCore	DroidBooster App for Android	FRA	$23,000,000	Android	[160]
132	December 2, 2013	Schaft.inc	Humanoid robots	JPN		Google X	[161]
133	December 3, 2013	Industrial Perception	Computer Vision	USA		Google X	[161]
134	December 4, 2013	Redwood Robotics	Robotic Arms	USA		Google X	[161]
135	December 5, 2013	Meka Robotics	Robots	USA		Google X	[161]
136	December 6, 2013	Holomni	Robotic wheels	USA		Google X	[161]
137	December 7, 2013	Bot & Dolly	Robotic cameras	USA		Google X	[161]
138	December 8, 2013	Autofuss	Ads and Design	USA		Google X	[161]
139	December 10, 2013	Boston Dynamics	Robotics	USA		Google X	[162][161]
140	January 4, 2014	Bitspin	Timely App for Android	CHE		Android	[163]
141	January 13, 2014	Nest	Home automation	USA	$3,200,000,000		[164][165]
142	January 15, 2014	Impermium	Internet security	USA		Google	[166]
143	January 26, 2014	DeepMind Technologies	Artificial Intelligence	UK	$650,000,000	Google X	[167]
144	February 16, 2014	SlickLogin	Internet Security	ISR		Google	[168]

(Source:Wikipedia and Web Analytics)