Google has acquired Picasa, a Pasadena, Calif.-based digital photography company, in a move aimed at further cementing its relationship with consumers. Financial terms of the deal weren't disclosed. Picasa develops and sells software that lets users to organize and share digital photographs. ...
Google, purchased Sprinks. Sprinks advertisements, which were distributed over the About.com media network, were replaced by Google Adwords advertisements. Users who didn't have Google Adwords account, and wanted to have a site where Sprinks was showing before, had to open a Google Adwords ...
Neotonic Software is a San Francisco-based start-up which specializes in e-mail customer support. Google have also hired David Jeske, co-founder of Neotonic and the former director of engineering for eGroups (which now exists as Yahoo! Groups). The move is being seen as a step for Google to move ...
Google acquired Pyra Labs, developers of Blogger. Pyra has over 1 million registered users, with about a quarter of those actively publishing weblogs. For the most part, these blogs are ad-free, offering an appealing distribution channel for Google's AdWords text based ads. The acquisition ...
Google Inc. today announced the company's acquisition of the intellectual property, including patent rights, source code, trademarks, and associated domain names, from Outride Inc., a Redwood City, Calif.-based developer of online information retrieval technologies. Financial terms of the deal were ...
On February 12, 2001, Google Inc. announced that it has acquired Deja.com's Usenet Discussion Service. This acquisition provides Google with Deja's entire Usenet archive (dating back to 1995), software, domain names including deja.com and dejanews.com, company trademarks, and other intellectual ...
Jafar was the Royal Vizier of Agrabah and is the main antagonist in Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, its 1994 sequel and the direct-to-video film Mickey's House of Villains. He also appeared in an episode of Disney's 1998 television series Hercules. Jafar is voiced by ...
Genie is the tritagonist in the Disney's 1992 animated feature film Aladdin, The Return of Jafar, Aladdin and the King of Thieves, and its 1994-96 spinoff television series. He is the magical friend of Aladdin. Like most popular depictions of genies, Disney's Genie was originally a slave. ...
