Hi friends,
Google is one among the world's biggest web companies today. There are lots and lots of Google services which we cant avoid in today's world. These services cant be replaced by anyone else easily. But the real truth is that, Google is a planned buyer rather than a developer. Yeah, it is. Most of the user-fondly services of Google were launched by other web companies and when those services became successful and well-developed, Google just snatched it away from them. I am not criticizing Google on this aspect, even though I'm just bringing this into your notice. Let me prove it with examples...
1. Blogger: Blogger is one among the most used services from Google. Blogger is a free blog hosting platform which allows users to start their own blog without even a penny.
In August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free and the credit goes to Google for this step.
2. Picasa: Picasa is an image organizer and image viewer for organizing and editing digital photos, plus an integrated photo-sharing website.
Picasa was originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.
3. FeedBurner: Feedburner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Maybe One among every 3 bloggers use this service.
On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.One month later, two of their popular PROservices (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.
4. YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The name and logo of the company allude to a cathode ray tube, which was used as the screen of a television in the days before flat panel displays.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
5. Google Maps: Google Maps (formerly Earth Viewer) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.
Google Maps first started as a software application developed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen for the company Where2. In October 2004 the company was acquired by Google Inc where it transformed into the web application Google Maps. The application was first announced on the Google Blog on February 8, 2005, and was located at Google.
6. Double Click: Double Click is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services.
DoubleClick was founded in 1996. It was formerly listed as "DCLK" on the NASDAQ, and was purchased by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity in July 2005. Unlike many other dot-com companies, it survived the bursting of the dot-com bubble. In March 2008, Google acquired DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion in cash.
Those were some of the main acquirements and purchases from Google. Apart from this there are many small scale purchases too. They are as follows:
7) Google Voice: GrandCentral, founded in 2005 by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet with funding by Minor Ventures, was acquired by Google on July 2, 2007, for US$95 million in a transaction led by Wesley Chan.
8) Picnik: The online photo editing site was acquired by Google on March 1, 2010.
9) Aardvark: Aardvark is a social search service that connects users live with friends or friends-of-friends who are able to answer their questions.On February 11, 2010 Aardvark was acquired by Google for $50 million.
Some of the other companies acquired include: AdMob, Agnilux and recently Widevine
So what we understand from this is that Google would have been nothing if these developers refused to sell it. One of the developer who refused to sell his creation to Google is Friendster. In 2003, Google offered to purchase the social network, Friendster, but the offer was declined by that company. Google then internally commissioned Orkut Büyükkökten to work on a competing independent project. The result was Orkut, and the product launched on January 24, 2004.
Did you know?
Starting 2001, in the time span of just 10 years Google has acquired 95 small and big firms which are now the great attractions of the Google firm.
In August 23, 1999, Blogger was launched by Pyra Labs. As one of the earliest dedicated blog-publishing tools, it is credited for helping popularize the format. In February 2003, Pyra Labs was acquired by Google under undisclosed terms. The acquisition allowed premium features (for which Pyra had charged) to become free and the credit goes to Google for this step.
Picasa was originally created by Idealab and owned by Google since 2004.
3. FeedBurner: Feedburner is a web feed management provider launched in 2004. FeedBurner provides custom RSS feeds and management tools to bloggers, podcasters, and other web-based content publishers. Maybe One among every 3 bloggers use this service.
On June 3, 2007, FeedBurner was acquired by Google Inc., for a rumored price of $100 million.One month later, two of their popular PROservices (MyBrand and TotalStats) were made free to all users.
4. YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing website on which users can upload, share, and view videos. The name and logo of the company allude to a cathode ray tube, which was used as the screen of a television in the days before flat panel displays.YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for $1.65 billion, and now operates as a subsidiary of Google.
5. Google Maps: Google Maps (formerly Earth Viewer) is a web mapping service application and technology provided by Google, free (for non-commercial use), that powers many map-based services, including the Google Maps website, Google Ride Finder, Google Transit, and maps embedded on third-party websites via the Google Maps API.Google Maps first started as a software application developed by Lars and Jens Rasmussen for the company Where2. In October 2004 the company was acquired by Google Inc where it transformed into the web application Google Maps. The application was first announced on the Google Blog on February 8, 2005, and was located at Google.
6. Double Click: Double Click is a subsidiary of Google that develops and provides Internet ad serving services.
DoubleClick was founded in 1996. It was formerly listed as "DCLK" on the NASDAQ, and was purchased by private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity in July 2005. Unlike many other dot-com companies, it survived the bursting of the dot-com bubble. In March 2008, Google acquired DoubleClick for US$3.1 billion in cash.
Those were some of the main acquirements and purchases from Google. Apart from this there are many small scale purchases too. They are as follows:
7) Google Voice: GrandCentral, founded in 2005 by Craig Walker and Vincent Paquet with funding by Minor Ventures, was acquired by Google on July 2, 2007, for US$95 million in a transaction led by Wesley Chan.
8) Picnik: The online photo editing site was acquired by Google on March 1, 2010.9) Aardvark: Aardvark is a social search service that connects users live with friends or friends-of-friends who are able to answer their questions.On February 11, 2010 Aardvark was acquired by Google for $50 million.
Some of the other companies acquired include: AdMob, Agnilux and recently Widevine
So what we understand from this is that Google would have been nothing if these developers refused to sell it. One of the developer who refused to sell his creation to Google is Friendster. In 2003, Google offered to purchase the social network, Friendster, but the offer was declined by that company. Google then internally commissioned Orkut Büyükkökten to work on a competing independent project. The result was Orkut, and the product launched on January 24, 2004.
Did you know?
Starting 2001, in the time span of just 10 years Google has acquired 95 small and big firms which are now the great attractions of the Google firm.
Acquisition date | Company | Business | Value (USD) | Used as, integrated with |
February 12, 2001 | ||||
September 20, 2001 | ||||
February 2003 | ||||
April 2003 | ||||
April 2003 | $102,000,000 | |||
September 30, 2003 | ||||
October 2003 | Sprinks | |||
October 2003 | ||||
May 10, 2004 | ||||
July 13, 2004 | ||||
September 2004 | ||||
October 2004 | ||||
October 27, 2004 | ||||
March 28, 2005 | ||||
May 12, 2005 | ||||
July 2005 | ||||
July 7, 2005 | $100,000,000 | |||
August 17, 2005 | ||||
November 2005 | ||||
November 17, 2005 | ||||
December 20, 2005 | $1,000,000,000 | |||
December 27, 2005 | ||||
December 31, 2005 | ||||
December 31, 2005 | ||||
January 17, 2006 | $102,000,000 | |||
February 14, 2006 | ||||
March 9, 2006 | ||||
March 14, 2006 | ||||
April 9, 2006 | ||||
June 1, 2006 | ||||
August 15, 2006 | ||||
October 9, 2006 | $1,650,000,000 | |||
October 31, 2006 | ||||
December 18, 2006 | $28,000,000 | |||
January 4, 2007 | $5,000,000 | |||
February 16, 2007 | $23,000,000 | |||
March 16, 2007 | ||||
April 17, 2007 | ||||
April 19, 2007 | $15,000,000 | |||
April 13, 2007 | $3,100,000,000 | |||
May 11, 2007 | ||||
June 1, 2007 | ||||
June 3, 2007 | $100,000,000 | |||
June 5, 2007 | ||||
June 19, 2007 | ||||
July 2, 2007 | $45,000,000 | |||
July 20, 2007 | ||||
July 9, 2007 | $625,000,000 | |||
September 27, 2007 | ||||
October 9, 2007 | ||||
July 30, 2008 | Omnisio | $15,000,000 | ||
September 12, 2008 | TNC (Tatter and Company) | |||
August 5, 2009 | $106,600,000 | |||
September 16, 2009 | ||||
November 9, 2009 | $750,000,000 | |||
November 9, 2009 | $30,000,000 | |||
November 23, 2009 | ||||
December 4, 2009 | ||||
February 12, 2010 | $50,000,000 | |||
February 17, 2010 | Email Search | |||
March 1, 2010 | $5,000,000 | |||
March 5, 2010 | $25,000,000 | |||
April 2, 2010 | ||||
April 12, 2010 | ||||
April 20, 2010 | Agnilux | Server technologystart-up | ||
April 27, 2010 | ||||
April 30, 2010 | $30,000,000 | |||
May 20, 2010 | Music syncing | |||
May 21, 2010 | ||||
June 3, 2010 | $81,000,000 | |||
July 1, 2010 | $700,000,000 | |||
July 16, 2010 | ||||
August 2010 | Zetawire | |||
August 4, 2010 | Java/Eclipse/AJAX Developer Tools | |||
August 5, 2010 | $182,000,000 | |||
August 10, 2010 | Social Gold payment | $70,000,000 | ||
August 15, 2010 | $100,000,000 | boutiques.com | ||
August 30, 2010 | Angstro | |||
August 30, 2010 | ||||
September 13, 2010 | $10,000,000 | |||
September 28, 2010 | ||||
October 1, 2010 | ||||
December 3, 2010 | ||||
December 3, 2010 | ||||
January 13, 2011 | ||||
January 25, 2011 | ||||
January 26, 2011 | $10,000,000 | |||
March 1, 2011 | ||||
March 7, 2011 | £37,700,000 | |||
March 7, 2011 | ||||
March 16, 2011 | ||||
April 8, 2011 | $25,000,000 | |||
April 26, 2011 |
List courtesy: www.wikipedia.org
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