Google's top 5 Pricey acquisitions

By siliconindia   |   Wednesday, 17 August 2011, 19:45 IST   |    1 Comments
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Bangalore: Google is stretching its arms long, and this is quite evident from its recent move to acquire Motorola mobility. This will be one of the most expensive acquisitions that Google had undergone ever in the smart phone sector. Google has a long history of brilliant acquisitions in the past. They have acquired more than 100 companies which have yielded the perfect predicted results for them. Let's go through a sneak peek into the top 5 most expensive acquisitions undertaken by the search giant. 1. Motorola mobility:
The news of Google venturing into the serious phones business has sent thunders in the tech world and its contemporaries. It acquired Motorola at a whopping price of $12.5 billion on August 15, 2011. With this milestone Google can further boost the android market which is already making a buzz around the world. However it maintains that Android will still be an open sourced platform.

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