prepared by : niranjan kumar. $ 12.5bn purchase price
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Past 11 years
acquisition 102 companiesBig purchasesDouble click
2007, $3.1bn
YouTube 2006,
$1.65bn
AOL (5% stake)
2005, $1bn
102 companies74 were based in US
6 in Canada
5 in Germany
4 in the united kingdom
2 in Australia
2 in Israel and in other
countries.
17500 patents
7000 patents in
the pipelineGoogle have 2000
patents*
+= 19500
* 1000 bought
recently from IBM
Failed Google’s
AcquisitionsNortel deal (Offered $990mn
for 5000 patents)
And almost lost Interdigital for
their 8,800 + patents
If this is all about
patent warThen More M&A could
be possible
Companies to Watch:
Alcatel Lucent
Interdigital
Virnet X