Google acquisitions history ;)
The latest in the duel:
March 6, 2010. Google Inc. has acquired a company called DocVerse who provides tools that make its possible for people to use the Internet to work together on documents formatted in one of Microsoft's word processing, spreadsheet or presentation programs.
November 23, 2010. CPTN Holdings LLC, a consortium of technology companies organised by Microsoft, is purchasing 882 Novell patents for $450 million cash.
December, 2010. Google (GOOG) announced two new acquisitions in separate blog posts Friday: It has bought speech-synthesis software maker Phonetic Arts and video-distribution technology firm Widevine Technologies.
April, 2011. Google announced it has made its second deal via its subsidiary Google Energy, and the search engine giant plans to buy 100 MW of power from a wind farm that’s under construction in Oklahoma. See whitepaper.
May 10, 2011. Microsoft announced that it was buying Skype for $8.5 B
Just for the record, Google reportedly offered about $6 billion for e-commerce coupon site Groupon.
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