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Socialdeck

rumorist — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:10:45 +0000

Acquisition date: 08/30/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: Undisclosed
Profile: SocialDeck offers social gaming platform which enables simultaneous game play across multiple mobile devices and social networks. The company has launched several titles for the iPhone, Facebook. SocialDeck’s technology also facilitates viral content discovery, distribution and monetization.

SocialDeck’s games were downloaded about a million times in 2009. Its games include Shake & Spell, Color Connect and Pet Hero.

SocialDeck was founded in Canada in 2008.

Angstro

rumorist — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 09:05:54 +0000

Acquisition date: 08/27/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: Undisclosed
Profile: Angstro delivers news about people and companies across social networks. By leveraging networks as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, Angstro helps users to easily discover and share news about colleagues and clients. Angstro disambiguates names and analyzes social graphs to prioritize the relationships that matter most. Angstro was founded in 2007 by entrepreneur and Internet researcher Rohit Khare, who is now joining the Google team and will be involved in Google Me.

Like

rumorist — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:07:57 +0000

Acquisition date: 08/15/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: $100M

Profile: like.com matches users’ searches with similar or identical objects by comparing each object’s “visual signature”. These signatures are “mathematical representations of images using 10,000 variables”. Like.com allows people to search for items by detail, color, shape and pattern. The main website is primarily selling clothing and jewelery.

Jambool

rumorist — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:40:48 +0000

Acquisition date: 8/10/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: $70M
Profile: Social Gold (product of Jambool) gives app developers the ability to build payments directly into games and other applications.

Slide

rumorist — Sat, 07 Aug 2010 06:43:58 +0000

Acquisition date: 08/06/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: $182M
Profile: Slide, the social application company was founded by PayPal’s co-founder Max Levchin. The company started as a photo sharing company, and continued with social games applications. According to Google: “Slide has already created compelling social experiences for tens of millions of people across many platforms, and we’ve already built strong social elements into products like Gmail, Docs, Blogger, Picasa and YouTube. As the Slide team joins Google, we’ll be investing even more to make Google services socially aware and expand these capabilities for our users across the web”.

Instantiations

rumorist — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 06:52:11 +0000

Acquisition date: 08/04/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: Undisclosed
Profile: Instantiations is an award winning Java and Ajax development tools company, known in particular for their Google Web Toolkit (GWT) designer.

metaweb

rumorist — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 06:42:12 +0000

Acquisition date: 07/1/62010
Acquisition info: link
Price: Undisclosed
Profile: Metaweb is a semantic search startup which develops both semantic data storage infrastructure for the web, and Freebase, an “open, shared database of the world’s knowledge”.

ITA SOFTWARE

rumorist — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:43:00 +0000

Acquisition date: 7/1/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: $700M
Profile: ITA Software is a flight information software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. According to Google, the acquisition will benefit passengers, airlines and online travel agencies by making it easier for users to comparison shop for flights and airfares and by driving more potential customers to airlines’ and online travel agencies’ websites.

INVITE MEDIA

rumorist — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 19:16:23 +0000

Acquisition date: 5/2/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: undisclosed
Profile: Invite Media enables advertisers and agencies to use “real time bidding” to buy display ad space, and to optimize display ad campaigns, across multiple advertising exchanges, all in a single interface. The start-up is based in New York and Philadelphia.

KOPROL

rumorist — Tue, 25 May 2010 08:07:30 +0000

Acquisition date: 5/25/2010
Acquisition info: link
Price: undisclosed
Profile: Koprol, based in Jakarta, Indonesia is a social- location mobile network, where people can share photos and reviews of locations using their mobile phones.