We recently posted and article about the  Acquisitions & Investments by Microsoft, here we are with the Acquisitions by Google, The acquisitions date by as early as February 2011. Google has acquired wide range of companies from Youtube to reCaptcha to feedburner. Some of them to purely generate revenue while most of them to increase […]
Tag Archives: Investments
25
May
Whoever says Microsoft is a Sinking Ship hasn’t watched this – Investments and Acquisitions
You must be heard the news about Mircosoft buying out Skype recently, people saying things like Microsoft is a sinking ship, doing worthless investments and there is no profit involved, Let me tell you my friend you are WRONG. Microsoft is one of the Greatest companies the World has witnessed, with likes of Bill Gates, […]
13
Jan
Facebooks Valuation and Investments as on January 2011
Facebook was started as thefacebook.com  in Feb 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and changed to Facebook  in year 2005. In year Sep 2004, Facebook received $500,000 from Peter Thiel as an investment and in 2004 the company was valued at $5 Million. In Jan 2011,  Facebook received $500 Million from Goldman Sachs and DST […]