Other acquisitions include web application company JotSpot, which became Google Sites Voice over IP company GrandCentral, which became Google Voice and video hosting service company Next New Networks, which became YouTube Next Lab and Audience Development Group. Similarly, Google acquired Dodgeball, a social networking service company, and eventually replaced it with Google Latitude. For example, Google's first acquisition was the Usenet company Deja News, and its services became Google Groups. Many Google products originated as services provided by companies that Google has since acquired. To date, Alphabet has divested itself of four business units: Frommers, which was sold back to Arthur Frommer in April 2012 SketchUp, which was sold to Trimble in April 2012, Boston Dynamics in early 2016 and Google Radio Automation, which was sold to WideOrbit in 2009. Most of the firms acquired by Google are based in the United States, and, in turn, most of these are based in or around the San Francisco Bay Area. Timeline of Google products, services, and acquisitionsĪs of December 2016, Alphabet has acquired over 200 companies, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion.
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