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Most of what you listed were acquisitions, then paired with Adwords.
by mountaineer22 10y ago
Most of what you listed were acquisitions, then paired with Adwords.
- api 10y agoAndroid was an acquisition?
- mountaineer22 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system)#His... In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc. for at least $50 million, whose key employees, including Rubin, Miner and White, stayed at the company after the acquisition.
- deleted 10y ago[deleted]
- endemic 10y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Alphabet https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...
- karma_vaccum123 10y agoGoogle merely acquired the embryo of modern Android. They can take credit for growing it.
- hiou 10y agoSeriously? Someone needed to down vote that comment? Take it easy, not everyone knows everything. Yikes.
- prodigal_erik 10y agoA question that can be answered by pasting it into a search engine is very unlikely to provoke an insightful discussion, and is not good use of HN real estate.
- DannyBee 10y agoExcept it turns out the answer you get is wrong!
- DannyBee 10y agoPlease ignore the folks who were snarky and downvoted you. Folks like to think this was really an acquisition, but they are mostly wrong :) In particular, Google basically acquired some people. Anyone who thinks they had a real OS at that point, and anything that approached even the first version of android, is smoking something. Source: I did diligence on the acquisition, and I watched them develop android at Google.
- jsjohnst 10y agoAt the risk of getting down voted by folks not in the know, Adwords was also such an infringement (just done much much better) of an Overture patent [1] that if it hadn't been for Yahoo buying up Overture and later settling the lawsuit, our views on Google's success might be very different today. [1] https://www.google.com/patents/US6269361 https://www.google.com/patents/US6269361