8 Biggest Acquisitions Made by Google


BANGALORE: If you come across any query and you have no one to look into the problem, what is the first thing you will do? You will Google it right! Definitely, Google plays an important role to make our life easy. Today, Google is recognized as a multinational corporation specializing in internet and internet related products.

But have you ever wondered how much hard work and acquisitions Google has to do to make things that easy for us. Curious to know how Google became the best friend to almost everyone in today’s scenario. Enlisting the 8 biggest acquisitions made by Google.

1. Motorola Mobility

Google shocked the mobile markets when it made a whooping deal of buying Motorola Mobility for getting a stronger foothold in mobile phones and tablet business. Google acquired Motorola in 2012 for a massive $12.5 billion in cash.

But eventually Google went through a loss of hundreds of millions each quarter since the purchase of the handset and thus Google decided to dump Motorola.

Larry Page, CEO of Google announced on his blog page that Google sold most of the Motorola mobility to Lenovo for just $2.91 billion.