Google Goes to Market - washingtonpost.com

 Timely snapshot

When Google Inc. quietly bought a software shop called Android Inc. a year ago, neither the suitor nor the quarry revealed much about the terms of their attraction.

Google never said how Android, a 22-month-old start-up that described itself solely as a maker of software for mobile phones, would fit into its grand strategy.

Including this handy table:

Google's Acquisitions Since Going Public

Date	Company	Technology
2004
Oct. 27	Keyhole	Mapping software
Oct. 30	Zipdash	Traffic information to mobile phones
Dec. 15	Where2	Mapping software
2005
March 25	Urchin Software	Advertising performance
May 12	Dodgeball.com	Mobile social networking
July 20	Akwan Info. Technologies	Search engine
Aug. 7	Android	Mobile software
Sept. 15	Transformic	Search engine
2006
Jan. 5	Reqwireless	Mobile Web browsing
Jan. 17	dMarc	Advertising
Feb. 14	Measure Map	Blog statistics
March 10	Upstartle	Web-based word processing
March 14	@Last Software	3D software for architects
April 10	Orion	Search
Aug. 15	Neven Vision	Facial recognition software

SOURCES: Thomson Financial, Citigroup, Washington Post reporting

 

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