Google Acquires GrandCentral
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Google acquired voice communications management company GrandCentral on Monday, a move that it hopes will strengthen its service offerings.
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The Chicago-based public company that owns some of Boston's best-known buildings, including Center Plaza and Rowes Wharf, is being acquired by a global private equity firm in the largest takeover of a real estate company.
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Google Inc. said Friday it had filed for European Union permission to take over online ad tracker DoubleClick, a $3.1 billion deal that already has stirred concern about the control it will give Google over Internet advertising.
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Internet search leader Google Inc.   is open to new acquisitions and remains hopeful it can  close the $3.1 billion purchase of Web ad supplier DoubleClick  by end-2007 despite a U.S. federal probe, its CEO said on  Wednesday.
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Technology research firm Gartner will purchase rival Meta Group for about $162 million. The firms have complementary business strategies, and both are headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut.
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Google is forming partnerships with hundreds of smaller media companies that see value in contributing to the site.
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Search giant Google Inc. on Wednesday said it has acquired Keyhole Corp., a digital-mapping company that shows satellite pictures from around the world.
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Google filed with the European Union  competition regulator on Friday for permission to buy rival  DoubleClick for $3.1 billion, the European Commission said.
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Google said it would file on Friday with the European Commission for permission to acquire rival DoubleClick for $3.1 billion.
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The Web auction leader has acquired StumbleUpon, a Web browsing recommendation site, for $75 million in cash.
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Another day... another Google acquisition: this one giving yet more confirmation that Google has its eye on the enterprise. The search giant announced yesterday that it has acquired Postini, a security and compliance services provider, for a cool $625 million in cash.
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Internet search company Google Inc.  has acquired Keyhole Corp., a supplier of online satellite maps that allow users to zoom down to street level to specific locations, Google said on Wednesday.
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Google executives are expected to testify about their planned $3.1 billion acquisition of DoubleClick, a deal facing scrutiny from federal antitrust regulators.
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WASHINGTON -- U.S. antitrust regulators approved Google Inc.'s $3.1 billion purchase of DoubleClick Inc. Thursday, removing a key obstacle to a formidable combination in the burgeoning online advertising sector.
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Google Inc. has bought digital map maker Keyhole, extending the search engine with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world.
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Google Inc. has formed a partnership with Capgemini SA, which will provide IT services to large businesses that adopt the Google Apps Premier Edition hosted suite of collaboration and communication software.
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(InfoWorld) - While Google is declining to be specific about plans for its newly acquired PeakStream technology, a Google representative confirmed Wednesday that PeakStream's product line will no longer be commercially available. Google acquired PeakStream on Tuesday. The representative, who asked to not be named in this article, said Google believes PeakStream's broad technical expertise can help build products and features to benefit Google users. The future, Google believes, is in the ability to scale high-performance applications that can work on multicore processors. Founded by former Sun Microsystems and VMware officials, PeakStream launched its PeakStream Platform in 2006, featuring an application server and developer tools for programming multicore processors, graphics processor units, and cell processors. The technology was aimed at markets such as oil and gas exploration, financial services, and life sciences. PeakStream's two product editions will no longer be sold, said the representative, who did not know specifics of customer support obligations pertaining to these products. The representative also did not know the size of the PeakStream installed base of customers. Google is impressed with the PeakStream team itself, the Google representative said. Google has been on a buying binge of late, also acquiring hot Internet properties such as YouTube and DoubleClick. With these acquisitions, Google is looking to build its advertising business, said Rebecca Lieb, an observer of Google and editor of ClickZ Network, which offers interactive marketing news. She also runs Search Engine Watch. "That's how Google makes its money," she said. Google already is taking on Microsoft in the enterprise application space by offering its free Google Docs & Spreadsheets applications, Lieb said. These allow for selling of contextual ads based on user habits, although the user is not personally identifiable, she added.