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Google Acquisitions: A Qualitative Analysis and Business Assessment

Google is making big bets in the areas of wireless handsets and applications. This research provides a qualitative examination behind the series of Google's corporate acquisitions, highlighted by Google's acquisition of Motorola Mobility. In this report, we evaluate the vision and potential for Google acquisitions.

The report analyzes Google's direction and their integration plans including their key acquisition, Motorola Mobility. It also identifies "holes" remaining in their portfolio relative to what they need to bolster their market position, generate additional revenue, and generally realize a positive ROI

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Audience:

• Competitors to Google: Any company that either already has or is contemplating a competing line-of-business, application, product, service, etc.
• Investor Community: Investment banks, private equity, venture capital, angel fund investors, and any other entity seeking to invest in any venture that is impacted (positively or negatively) by Google
• Small Companies and Start-up's: Any small company or start-up that has a new idea or business that could be impacted (positively or negatively) by Google
• Others: Google continues to expand in depth and breadth of product areas and influence throughout many industries including search, media, communications, content, telephony, applications, and more.

Published By: Mind Commerce Publishing
Date Published: Jan 2012

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Google Acquisitions and Strategy

While advertising remains a core offering and the largest component from a revenue perspective, Google is increasingly focused on innovation and product/application integration to develop new businesses and business models. In addition to their own resources, Google is relying upon an aggressive acquisition strategy to help them expand in different business directions including advertising (improvements), social media, commerce, wireless/mobile, cloud business, and many more.

This research evaluates Google's acquisition history including new business models introduced by these acquisitions.

The report also analyzes Google's acquisitions strategy, type of companies Google need, and why they are needed in support of Google's various business models.

Audience:

• Competitors to Google: Any company that either already has or is contemplating a competing line-of-business, application, product, service, etc.
• Investor Community: Investment banks, private equity, venture capital, angel fund investors, and any other entity seeking to invest in any venture that is impacted (positively or negatively) by Google
• Small Companies and Start-up's: Any small company or start-up that has a new idea or business that could be impacted (positively or negatively) by Google
• Others: Google continues to expand in depth and breadth of product areas and influence throughout many industries including search, media, communications, content, telephony, applications, and more.

Published By: Mind Commerce Publishing
Date Published: Jan 2011

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Useful Resources

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Business2.0	Venture Capital: Major Players A hand-picked directory of the best business links on the web.
National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)	The trade association that represents the venture capital industry. It is a member-based organization. Its membership consists of venture capital firms and organizations who manage pools of risk equity capital designated to be invested in young, emerging companies.
VCgate	A powerful and extensive directory of venture capital, private equity, merchant banking, and other investment firms from all over the world. If you are looking for funding, VCgate can help you search more quickly and efficiently. With VCgate, you gain the power to find and contact the firms most likely to partner with you!
Growthink Research	Growthink Research is a research firm that tracks and analyzes wireless companies that have successfully raised venture capital funding.
Network World Fusion	Venture capital database This is a database of information from the PricewaterhouseCoopers / Network World Venture Capital Survey, listing recipients of funding from venture-capital firms. See who got VC money, how much, from whom and for what, using any of several different search criteria.
PostIdea	Thinking about funding your current business, launching a new business, a restaurant, a communications firm, or a technology venture? Upload your business plan to PostIdea.com's secure network and get the best funding or partners, to support your venture!
StartupJournal	Financing News, articles and resources.
VentureOne	Venture Capital and Private Equity Research and Information.
VentureReporter.net	Comprehensive database of non-public companies in the world. Tracks every venture capital investment as well as every merger and acquisition of note. VentureReporter.net on Wireless news and articles.
WirelessMatch	WirelessMatch facilitates private equity investment in early stage companies operating in the wireless applications, content and technology markets.

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