The first quarter of 2010 is almost over and it witnessed what Google has been doing since years. In the first four months of 2010, Google acquired 8 companies from varied technological niches. Here are the details of the companies Google acquired in 2010 Q1.
Acquired on: 12th February, 2010
For: $50 million
A social search service where users connect with friends and build up a network. They get to ask and answer questions. A very good service for those who seek subjective human responses to their queries and get recommendations.
Acquired on: 17th February, 2010
reMail was a iPhone app that claimed to provide fast full-text search for Gmail and IMAP email accounts. After the acquisition, the app was discontinued and the company’s CEO, Gabor Cselle joined Google. reMail’s underlying technology is now merged with Gmail.
Acquired on: 1st March, 2010
An online photo-editing service. It fetches your photos from popular sites like Picasa Web albums, Facebook, Flickr and MySpace and let your edit them online. It has been merged with Google Picasa.
DocVerse (redirect to Google Docs)
Acquired on: 5th March, 2010
For: $25 million
An online word processing, spreadsheet and presentation service originally developed by Writely Team. It is now merged with Google Docs.
Acquired on: 2nd April, 2010
A platform for broadcasting live and on-demand video to the web and web-enabled devices. Helpful to publishers and marketers to host, stream and monetize online video. It’s now merged with YouTube.
Plink (redirect to Google Goggles)
Acquired on: 12th April, 2010
Plink, now Google Goggles, is a visual image search engine specially developed for mobile phones.
Agnilux
Acquired on: 20th April, 2010
An secretive semiconductor start-up by Apple employees. Angilux is speculated to make highly advanced processors for servers capable to fuel the huge data centers of the giant.
Acquired on: 27th April, 2010
LabPixies is an Israel based widget creator company that previously developed widgets for iGoogle. Google acquired LabPixies to popularize iGoogle in Africa and Middle East.
So in short, Google continues its spree at a constant pace. The question is of only – Who’s next?
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