Google has entered the security market with the purchase of Postini for $625m in cash. Postini became a wholly owned subsidiary of the search giant, and its products will be used on Google's existing services. The acquisition is particularly useful to Google as it rolls out more online ...
Google acquired GrandCentral Communications, a company that provides services for managing your voice communications. GrandCentral was an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account, which can be accessed from the web. ...
Google announced it bought FeedBurner, a firm specializing in delivering podcasts, weblogs, news and advertising to Internet browsers. Chicago-based FeedBurner is a "web feed" firm that lets online publishers constantly send updated news, commentary and other content directly to readers ...
The acquisition, according to a posting on the Google Operating System blog, should provide the Internet giant with a Web "sandbox" for its users. Basically users could enter the sandbox, search and interact with various Web sites, and leave any viruses they encounter back in the sandbox ...
Google Inc. has acquired portions of a Swiss company called Endoxon in order to improve the European maps in its Google Earth PC application and Google Maps online search service. Google, which plans to use Endoxon's technology to enhance Google Earth and Google Maps, bought the Swiss ...
Google has acquired @Last Software, a 3D-design toolmaker and developer of the SketchUp software. @Last Software, a Boulder, Colo.-based company, marks the latest acquisition by the rapidly expanding search giant. @Last Software's SketchUp, which is used by architects, game players, woodworkers ...
Google acquired a radio advertising company, paying $102 million in cash for dMarc Broadcasting, in a transaction that could eventually pay the privately-held firm as much as $1.136 billion over the next three years of acquisition. Google said it plans to create a new radio ad distribution channel ...
Keyhole Corp., was a Mountain View, Calif.-based digital mapping company. With an Internet connection, users enter an address or other location information and Keyhole's software accesses the database and takes them to a digital image of that location on their computer screen. The interactive ...
