Google had Google Apps (among other things) in mind when they went after Postini to acquire them. The acquisition for Postini, a communications security and compliance company was announced today for $625 million.
Back in May, a screenshot from an Adobe Breeze presentation yielded an interesting Google Talk screenshot which included new links like “show dial-pad,” “call details,” and “close.” This gave us great indication that Google has plans of incorporating a calling feature where users would be able to dial-out and place phone calls right from Google Talk.
If you’re keeping track, get out your list of Google Acquisitions for the year and add Zenter to it. Google just announced that they have acquired Zenter which is software for online slide presentations.
Will Google ever slow down? Their latest acquisition as confirmed by The Register is PeakStream, a software developer. I decided to go take a look at their site to get a better idea of what they’re all about, but as of yesterday, their entire site is down.
The big news today for Last.fm is that CBS has acquired them for 280 million! In their statement, CBS said that Last.fm fits well with their plan to attract a younger crowd (as though this isn’t obvious) to help transform CBS from a “content company” to an “audience company.” CBS has been on a roll lately by fully immersing themselves in Web 2.0 and all it has to offer.
Apparently GreenBorder users have known this news for a couple of weeks now, but it’s just spreading around the Blogosphere. On May 11th, Google made their next purchase on a long list of recent purchases — GreenBorder. They are known for their “signature-less” approach to protect computers from viruses, spyware, and other threats by isolating each Internet session from the rest of a user’s computer.
Google buy FeedBurner was the question that everybody was asking last week when rumors surfaced that an acquisition was under-way. It makes perfect sense. FeedBurner is known as RSS Management service that many, many sites use, as well as an advertising service that’s held its own.
News is buzzing around about Microsoft’s $6 billion acquisition of aQuantive! Yep, you read that right. Microsoft didn’t want to be left behind after Google bought the DoubleClick advertising firm for a whopping $3.1 billion, and Yahoo! quickly followed that up by purchasing Right Media for a mere $680 million.
Today begins the day that Yahoo will be closing down Yahoo Photos, a process that will occur over several months. When Yahoo photos originally started, Flickr hadn’t yet been acquired. It seems like at this point, there really isn’t a need for Yahoo to maintain two photo services.
Last week it was DoubleClick, this week it’s Marratech. Google has just announced their acquisition of Marratech , developers of web and video conferencing software. Their main competitors would be WebEx (recently acquired by Cisco), Microsoft Live Meeting, and Adobe Connect.
That’s right, Google has another huge purchase under their belt. This time it’s for the acquisition of DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion dollars in cash! The deal was announced yesterday, and it’s expected to be officially completed by the end of the year.
I think Cisco’s acquisition of WebEx is probably one of the largest in history at a bank-busting $3.2 Billion! In terms of cost, that equates to a lot of steak dinners.
The rumor is true! Microsoft has confirmed that they will in fact be acquiring Tellme Networks. Everybody knew it was coming (despite both parties denying it), it was just a matter of when.
eBay is at it again! Their list already includes PayPal, Shopping.com, and Skype ,with PayPal by far being the most successful buy, and adding to the acquisition list is StubHub. Some call it a ticket reseller, others call in ticket scalpers, it's really all the same thing and it just might be a good buy. eBay has been struggling recently with 100 million invested into a China eBay that has failed, along with a market value that has gone down 37 billion over the past two years (that's around 50%). Right now they're in a position where they are seeking out other e-commerce avenues to help them stay afloat.
Yahoo! has announced their first acquisition of 2007, MyBlogLog! Yahoo swept up MyBlogLog after only 3-4 months of release to the public. The estimated purchase price was $10-12 million. At the beginning of December, we decided we wanted to get in on the popular community for blogger's.
The last two years have been big years for Yahoo on many levels, but particularly when it comes to companies they have acquired. Hot start-up companies are often times looking for their big payday from giants like Yahoo.
No, they haven't merged..... yet. But, an AOL-Yahoo merge is rumored, looks rather attractive, and one source says that 2007 is the year for this. Another source agrees, but offers an additional possibility of AOL and Yahoo to be acquired by another company such as Microsoft. With Time Warner considering the option of selling AOL, who knows what will happen with the future of AOL.
First I'll start with Google's acquisition of Jotspot. As if they didn't get there hands on enough when they bought YouTube Google went and paid an unknown amount to buy the wiki company known as Jotspot. As Google Blogoscoped points out in the screenshots they took Jotspot already has the look and feel that Google services currently have.
Adobe didn't want to be left out in the time when everyone is buying everyone so they stepped up and purchased Serious Magic for an undisclosed amount. Actually, this is one of the most logical purchases that I have seen in a long time.
There has been all kinds of buzz around the Internet in the last 24-hours regarding acquisition rumors that Google is going after YouTube for the sum of $1.6 billion. From the sounds of it there is much more than speculation involved but the discussions are still in the very early stages and could end at any time.
