Free Pony Theory ~ What google buys today...

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

I find it slightly amusing watching Google acquisition pattern. I wouldn't be surprised when one day they will buy the LIbrary of Congress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nf/20061031/tc_nf/47485

Google Buys Wiki Startup JotSpot

With the acquisition of wiki technology developer JotSpot on Tuesday, Google stepped up its efforts to provide software for helping users create and post their own content on the Internet.

JotSpot is a Palo Alto-based startup known as an innovator of online collaboration tools that allow users to create, modify, and rework data that has already been worked on by others. Wiki tools were first popularized by the online encyclopedia
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Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/05...eedburner-this-deal-is-confirmed/

Rumors about Google acquiring RSS management company Feedburner from last week, started by ex-TechCrunch UK editor Sam Sethi, are accurate and are now confirmed according to a source close to the deal. Feedburner is in the closing stages of being acquired by Google for around $100 million. The deal is all cash and mostly upfront, according to our source, although the founders will be locked in for a couple of years.

The information we have is that the deal is now under a binding term sheet and will close in 2-3 weeks, and there is nothing that can really derail it at this point.

Huge congratulations to Feedburner. The company was founded in 2003 and has raised just $10 million in capital over two rounds. Portage Ventures funded their $1 million Series A round in 2004. The $9 million Series B round was closed in mid 2005 (second close in 2006), from Mobius Venture Capital and Union Square Ventures.

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

http://www.threadwatch.org/node/13917

Google to Buy DoubleClick for $3.1 Billion Cash

Google Inc. said late Friday it has agreed to acquire digital marketing company DoubleClick Inc. for $3.1 billion in cash from private equity firms Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity, and management. The deal is expected to close by the end of the year.

I believe DoubleClick owns Performics. This will aid Google's entry into affiliate marketing, but what will happen to Performics SEM service customers? Google avoided that question in their conference call.

Joined: 29 May 2007 Posts: 3 Location: Mexico

Im here Squashed.... Very Happy

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

okay you should be able to access places.

got to MdM internal first.

Joined: 23 Sep 2006 Posts: 1088

Two years ago, Google was on the verge of making that Microsoft-like error. Davidson, then a 37-year-old former deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology, was the search-engine company's sole staff lobbyist in Washington. As recently as last year, Google co-founder Sergey Brin had trouble getting meetings with members of Congress. To change that, Google went on a hiring spree and now has 12 lobbyists and lobbying-related professionals on staff here — more than double the size of the standard corporate lobbying office — and is continuing to add people.

http://politics.slashdot.org/politics/07/06/20/2249239.shtml

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