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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.
Yahoo! has a history of looking for, and acquiring companies and their technology and hiring employees from those businesses. I focused upon the most recent companies with this post, and will followup sometime in the near future with the rest that I can uncover. Here are a number of Yahoo acquisitions since October 2003: 3721 … Read more Yahoo Acquisitions since Overture
With all of the recent acquisitions by Yahoo! and Google, I decided to take a closer look at some Google Acquisitions. I’m glad I did. I came across a couple of papers I hadn’t seen before and learned a little more about some of Google’s employees that I didn’t know. Many of the Google acquisitions … Read more Early Google Acquisitions