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Acquisitions, mergers, and strategic investments have the potential to transform the technologies that power the Web. Companies like Google or Yahoo have made acquisitions of other companies for their technology, or to hire their employees because they have experience that might otherwise be difficult to acquire.
When writing about acquisitions, I have tried to include links to granted patents and patent applications that may have come with the acquisition as well.
Most news about acquisitions made on the web for technology companies doesn’t include information about the finances involved in those acquisitions.
Google Glasses aren’t the only Heads up Display that Google will likely use or demonstrate. Imagine that Google acquired eye-tracking technology that let you use your gaze as a mouse, and tracked your eye movements to see what you are looking at. Google has acquired such technology. Google buys Eyefluence eye-tracking startup. Here is a … Read more
What does this acquisition of Flyby Media mean for Apple’s Efforts in developing Augmented Reality Devices and Media? I noticed this headline in the news this morning: Apple patent details visual-based AR navigation, confirms Flyby Media acquisition. The article tells us that augmented reality can be accomplished using a phone, such as image data from … Read more
Google is possibly most well known for the patenting of an algorithm that sorted and ordered search results based upon a metric known as PageRank, named after Google Co-Founder Lawrence Page, while he was a student at Stanford University. Yahoo started as a Web Directory, which became a Search Engine, and the patent it might … Read more
I read today the news that early Search Engine Lycos is selling off their patents, presumably to enable them to launch other services. This was stated in the betaboston article Internet search pioneer Lycos puts patents up for sale. I wondered how many patents Lycos might have, and what they covered, so I looked them … Read more
It was a surprise to see many Yahoo! patents listed in Google’s assignment database as having been assigned to Google. With news recently that Yahoo would be closing the Yahoo Directory, that seemed like a strategic choice. Now I’m wondering if we will ever see an independent Yahoo Search Engine ever again once their deal … Read more