How Many Companies Has Google Bought?

One of the best ways to track Google's strategies is through visualizing & analyzing their acquisitions. Which is what the following image helps you do. Click on it for the full enlarged version :)


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Published: August 25, 2010 by Aaron Wall in google

Comments

Catalyst
August 25, 2010 - 3:54pm

They haven't had any luck finding their next big revenue stream.

sylviab
September 5, 2010 - 12:00am

Why re-invent the wheel when you can purchase an already successful project?

If most tv shows tank, what if you could buy a successful TVshow - and just sit back and reap the rewards without all the effort?

Similar to creating the next youtube - Google tried that and bailed on the project - and just went ahead and bought youtube!

If you're cash rich like Google (esp with the license to print money, so to speak, such as adwords) this makes much more tactical sense.

RickMcKnight
November 30, 2010 - 12:20pm

I don't see Recorded Future Inc., the company where both Google and the CIA are investing.

Recorded Future certainly has already proven the effectiveness of its software, as posted in its blog devoted to intelligence analysis. On March this year Israel warned that Hezbollah had obtained long-range Scud-like missiles, something that Recorded Future had already found corroborating evidence about a month earlier.

You can read more about the deal here:
Recorded Future

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