Category Archives: Acquisitions

Why Yahoo should stay away from Google

Posted on April 12, 2008 by Jochem

Yahoo is exploring several options for the company’s future, mainly in order to maximize the stock value now that Microsoft wants to acquire them. A merge with AOL/Time Warner is mentioned as one of the alternatives. However, a couple of … Continue reading →

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Interesting acquisition: Nokia buys Navteq

Posted on October 2, 2007 by Jochem

A very interesting acquisition today: Nokia acquired map-provider Navteq for $8.1 billion. This is especially interesting since Navteq is one of the major suppliers of digital maps, they provide mapping data to Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. Another supplier of mapping-data, … Continue reading →

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Doubleclick acquired by Google

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Jochem

Wow, that’s what I call a major acquisition in advertising world: Google has bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion (in cash). That’s 10x the yearly revenue of DoubleClick! This has just been confirmed on the Google blog. This is immediatly the … Continue reading →

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Google has officially bought YouTube!

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Jochem

It’s official now! Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion (in stock)! This is definitively the biggest and probably the most important acquirement in the (young) history of Google. It is now Googles turn to show how they will make … Continue reading →

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