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Apture Now Acquired By Google

We recently got this email from apture informing about this latest acquistion by Google.. Here’s a copy of the email below: Hi there, We’re writing to let you know that Apture has been acquired by Google. Since day one, we’ve been working on getting the Apture experience into as much of the web as possible. [...]

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Google Buys Zagat = More expansion of Local Offerings

Google buys Zagat. The company’s purchase was announced and indicates that Google is entering a new segment. The 32 year old company Zagat will be the basis of services offered by local services built maps and search. Rumour’s say that Google might have paid $125 million for the Zagat deal. The Motorola acquisition for 12.5 [...]

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Google Acquires Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Billion

We shared rumors that Google would acquire RIM but it turned out that we were wrong! It looks the first half of the rumor was indeed true. Google is acquiring BUT not RIM instead, Motorola Mobility for $12.5 Billon. This new acquisition gives Google 706 total patents and patented applications, making Google 317 patents + [...]

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Google Acquires Deal Map – Local Deals Online

The new Google Toy would be added to Google Offers and develop e-commerce market. From the Dealmap blog “Since launching The Dealmap in May 2010, our team has worked to build a great product where people can find and share all the best local deals, all in one place. In our first year alone, The [...]

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Google Acquires Facial Recognition Software Company PittPatt

Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) develops reliable face recognition software for images and video… The notice on PittPatt site says: Joining Google is the next thrilling step in a journey that began with research at Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute in the 1990s and continued with the launching of Pittsburgh Pattern Recognition (PittPatt) in 2004. We’ve [...]

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SageTV Acquired by Google

  So, that’s another +1 to the list of Google acquired companies list! SageTV could help Google TV build the A perfect Home Theater PC (HTPC).. Although many users dislike the acquisition, certainly many more users would profit from being a part Google. This acquisition could be because sageTV is better than Win7 Media Center [...]

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Google purchase BumpTop 3D Desktop

Today Google stars in one of those moves that a priori might surprise but watching them have a lot of potential depth. And is that the big G has purchased BumpTop 3D Desktop , an interesting software that transform the interface of our desktop into a real desk in three dimensions. Google was working on [...]

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Google Acquires LabPixies

Google announced the acquisition of entertainment development company LabPixies. Acquisition agreement were not disclosed, by the two sides. LabPixies is a platform for large number of Google applications, like iGoogle, iPhone, and Android platform development etc. Google likes development platform, but if there is a lack of application, then the platform loses its use. iGoogle [...]

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Google Buys AppJet for 10Million

Google Buys AppJet for 10Million

Google sure is on the shopping spree. AppJet an online collaboration startup said on Friday that Google is buying the San Francisco firm and merging its technology with an innovation Wave communication platform the Internet giant is creating. EtherPad enables people at various computers to simultaneously edit documents shared online, with changes instantly reflected on [...]

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Rumor: Google to buy micro blogging site Twitter

Rumor: Google to buy micro blogging site Twitter

If rumors are to be believed, Google is gonna buy the micro blogging site Twitter… From a post in techcrunch, says that Twitter has $250 million valuation and there are chances of Google buying it! We’re not too sure if its true but we surely know if Google buys twitter, there is surely some hit [...]

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