List of acquisitions by Google. Google is a computer software and a web search engine company that acquired, on average, more than one company per week in 2010 and 2011.[1] The table below is an incomplete list of acquisitions, with each acquisition listed being for the respective company in its entirety, unless otherwise specified. The acquisition date listed is the date of the agreement between Google and the acquisition subject. As Google is headquartered in the United States, acquisition is listed in US dollars. If the price of an acquisition is unlisted, then it is undisclosed. If the Google service that is derived from the acquired company is known, then it is also listed here. Google itself was re-organized into a subsidiary of a larger holding company known as Alphabet Inc. in 2015.
Timeline of Google products, services, and acquisitions Key acquisitions[edit] On January 26, 2014, Google announced it had agreed to acquire DeepMind Technologies, a privately held artificial intelligence company from London. Inc.: NASDAQ:GOOG quotes & news - Google Finance. IDC Says Google Revenues Biggest In Display; Yahoo! Convenes Investor Day; IAB Reports Q1 U.S. Online Ad Spend. Quick Stat: Google Display Ad Revenues to Pass $1 Billion This Year – The eMarketer Blog. Google Reveals Display And Mobile Revenues For First (And ONLY?) Time. Display advertising's doing just fine, thanks. Google's Jonathan Rosenberg, senior vice president of product management, took some time on this afternoon's Q3 earnings call to discuss some specific user numbers for newer Google businesses. He said this was a one time thing, so get pumped.
Without further ado: Display advertising is on an annual run rate of over $2.5 billion. That includes YouTube advertisements and ads on the DoubleClick platform. Rosenberg also said that the introduction of Google Instant had little effect on revenue, and was done primarily to improve the user experience. 2010 Quarterly Earnings - Google Investor Relations. Google's Display-Ad Sales Should Top $1 Billion. (This story was updated to clarify that Hair Club, a subsidiary of Regis, tested Campaign Insights) Google CEO Eric Schmidt hinted in July that display advertising would probably be the next of his company's businesses to generate $1 billion in sales.
Analysts say 2010 is the year he'll deliver on that prediction. Display ads are likely to contribute a little more than $1 billion, or about 4% of Google's (GOOG) total sales this year—an increase of as much 40% over last year—say analysts, including Doug Anmuth at Barclays Capital. That marks an important threshold for Mountain View (Calif.) -based Google, which makes most of its sales from ads placed alongside search results and which has been criticized for not getting more revenue from other businesses.
Demand for display ads, which include marketing messages in videos and banner ads adorning Web pages, may rise faster this year than for search-related ads, according to eMarketer. In display advertising, Google lags behind Yahoo!