Archive for the "Google Acquisitions" category

 

Tips to Get Acquired by Google

 

The Startup Game has shared six interesting tips on how to be a part of the massive list of Google acquisitions. And I believe these two are the best for they resound what an excellent startup worthy of million dollars paycheck should do:
Don’t focus on getting acquired. That’s like being a single woman who desperately [...]

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Google Acquired Zenter Online Slide Service

 

Online collaboration tools? There’s Google Docs and Spreadsheets, Gmail, GTalk, Google Calendar and all. What? You’re not yet satisfied?
Fine because there’s a newly acquired technology that will further enhance online collaboration - its the online slide presentations service from Zenter.
Zenter is one of the startup businesses that Y Combinator has funded.
TechCrunch has it that [...]

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All Your Company are Belong to Google

 

If you’re curious as to what other acquisitions Google had in the past, I mean the companies it has turned into either gold or trash, (come on not all Google acquisitions had become better services…) a WebMasterWorld forum member enumerated them. Here are those who have turned into gold in my opinion:
Urchin Software
Pyra Labs
Applied Semantics
Can [...]

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FeedBurner: Officially Acquired

 

The official Google blog has officially announced its acquisition of FeedBurner. There’s even an audio file of Google’s press call with Dick Costolo, FeedBurner’s CEO.
The announcement’s entitle Adding More Flare. Now is that for FeedBurner or for Google’s advantage?

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Google Buying FeedBurner Conversations

 

If you’re a true-blue Google fan, you already know that for $100 million, Google has just acquired FeedBurner, the most popular startup company offering RSS feed service.
Here you can follow what’s mentioned about this acquisition before and after:
The rumor about the Google FeedBurner acquisition was mentioned at Mashable.
The Good Part of the Acquisition:
FeedBurner will enhance [...]

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