Report: Google to reabsorb Nest to better compete with Amazon in smart home market
According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, Google is considering bringing its smart home device unit, Nest, back under the Google...
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The eerie future of AdWords targeting
“OK Google, tell me how creepy things are going to get.” How would your 2006 selves respond to our advertising toolbox of today? You can...
Twitter Takes On Google’s Alphabet: Today’s Best Tweets So Far
You know by now that Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin formed a new company, Alphabet, today as the parent organization over...
Meet Alphabet, The New Conglomerate Absorbing Google That’s Run By Larry Page & Sergey Br
Google’s being acquired. Its new owner will be Alphabet, a palace coup pulled off by Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Page...
Google’s Waze Trials Carpooling Service In Tel Aviv, Israel
According to the Jerusalem Post and Reuters, Google’s Waze is testing a carpool service in Israel. Named RideWith, it will match riders...
Report: Google Seeking To Buy Mobile Ad Platform InMobi
According to anonymous sources (reported first by Economic Times of India), Google and India-based mobile ad network/platform InMobi are...
Google Builds Up Digital Video Advertising Capabilities With mDialog Acquisition
In another sign of Google’s active plan to attract more brand dollars and capitalize on the digital video boom, the company announced it...
Google Steps Up Ad Fraud Fight With Spider.io Acquisition
announced today it has acquired the well-regarded web traffic analytics firm spider.io. Google has made significant investments in...
The “Real Reason” Google Sold Motorola To Lenovo
later confirmation of the $2.91 billion sale of Google’s Motorola hardware unit to Lenovo there were many theories presented about why...
Google Selling Motorola Handset Business To Lenovo For $2.9 Billion
reporting that Google and the Chinese computer maker are in talks to transfer the Motorola business for roughly $3 billion. [Update: The...
Nest And Google’s Top 10 Biggest Acquisitions
Google’s announcement that it is snapping up home automation firm Nest for a cool $3.2 billion in cash had us looking back at Google’s...
Google’s $1 Billion Waze Acquisition To See Antitrust Review
In addition, Waze becomes one fewer potential mapping challenger in the marketplace. According to the Wall Street Journal, the FTC “is...
Does Buying Motorola Emerge As A $12.5 Billion Mistake For Google?
Google bought Motorola Mobility in late 2011 for its patent portfolio. The company spent $12.5 billion, Google’s largest acquisition by...
Would Google Still Be Interested In Groupon?
offered as much as $5 billion to buy then private Groupon. At that time daily deals was an incredibly hot market segment and Groupon was...
BufferBox Part Of Google Effort To Own Commerce Value Chain “End-To-End”
BufferBox? On Friday we found out that Google had acquired one of its own Google Ventures investments; however the acquisition price for...
Google (As Motorola) Sues Apple Over Patents, Seeks US Import Ban On iPhones, Macs
The earlier Motorola ITC patent victory was based on a single claim related to wireless 3G standards. Motorola seeks an import ban on...
To Bolster Motorola Mobility Google Will Cut Heads And Devices
New York Times. Google will also close roughly 30 offices or “facilities” around the world. Most of the employee cuts will come from...
Google Nabs Wildfire Social Marketing Platform For Reported $250 Million
Though Google didn’t disclose a purchase price when announcing the acquisition, reports peg the value of the deal at around $250 million....
Google’s Acquisition Of Motorola Mobility Closes, What Now?
now part of Google. European and US approvals happened some time ago. The deal is worth $12.5 billion — Google’s largest acquisition by...
The Tech Investment Metric System — A New Type Of “Gram”
Instagram sold for $1 billion! Slideshare is being purchased for $118 million! Facebook about to go public for $100 billion! Apple’s on...
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