Just a few days ago the news of Google's acquisition of Motorola's Mobility to "moderate" figure of 12.5 billion (40 per share, 63% more than the actual value of the shares according to market Motorola). In fact, the operation is not yet complete: it should be authorized by the U.S. and the European Union and will be completed by the end of 2011 or early 2012.
This acquisition, as stated in the same dad Larry Page of Google, will increase the portfolio of patents and allow the Mountain View giant to protect themselves from attack by Microsoft and Apple. However, this does not lead to a closure with respect to the nature of "open" Android system, as the operating system will be therefore available from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, LG and other manufacturers of smartphones and tablet. Motorola Google but will not become an image of its own: Google will leverage Motorola's expertise to produce smartphones, but there will be a competitor to 'iPhone, at least for now.
But Google is not new to the overpriced acquisitions: second to Motorola, the square is the acquisition by $ 3.1 billion for DoubleClick, which provides advertising displays.In third place is Youtube, video sharing site bought in 2006 for a value of 1, 65 billion dollars, the fourth position for AdMob, which specializes in advertising on mobile devices, purchased for $ 750 million, followed by 700 million spent to buy ITA Software, a software company founded in 1996 specializing in search algorithms to optimize the travel and airline flights. Then, with $ 625 million Postini, a company that provides security services and management of e-mail.
Following Admeld, optimization platform for advertising, the figure of 400 million dollars and then slide the social gaming company that developed software for sharing photos on social networks (182 million U.S. dollars). In ninth place WideVine Tech optimizer videos purchased for $ 150 million to develop GoogleTv and tenth place for On2 Technologies, an American company that develops video codes, bought for $ 133 million.
This acquisition, as stated in the same dad Larry Page of Google, will increase the portfolio of patents and allow the Mountain View giant to protect themselves from attack by Microsoft and Apple. However, this does not lead to a closure with respect to the nature of "open" Android system, as the operating system will be therefore available from Samsung, Sony Ericsson, HTC, LG and other manufacturers of smartphones and tablet. Motorola Google but will not become an image of its own: Google will leverage Motorola's expertise to produce smartphones, but there will be a competitor to 'iPhone, at least for now.
But Google is not new to the overpriced acquisitions: second to Motorola, the square is the acquisition by $ 3.1 billion for DoubleClick, which provides advertising displays.In third place is Youtube, video sharing site bought in 2006 for a value of 1, 65 billion dollars, the fourth position for AdMob, which specializes in advertising on mobile devices, purchased for $ 750 million, followed by 700 million spent to buy ITA Software, a software company founded in 1996 specializing in search algorithms to optimize the travel and airline flights. Then, with $ 625 million Postini, a company that provides security services and management of e-mail.
Following Admeld, optimization platform for advertising, the figure of 400 million dollars and then slide the social gaming company that developed software for sharing photos on social networks (182 million U.S. dollars). In ninth place WideVine Tech optimizer videos purchased for $ 150 million to develop GoogleTv and tenth place for On2 Technologies, an American company that develops video codes, bought for $ 133 million.
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