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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