Google Spent $1.6B on 40 Companies This Year

[John_Keck]

In the first three quarters of 2010 Google has spent $1.6 billion on forty companies with the largest acquisition being AdMob at $681 million.

The company, which had $33 billion in cash through the third quarter, vowed to continue its shopping spree into 2011

 

[Uberazza]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdMob

AdMob was purchased for 750 million

http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/google-acquires-admob/

 

[travbrad]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AdMob

AdMob was purchased for 750 million

http://mashable.com/2009/11/09/google-acquires-admob/

The funny thing is they even link to their own article as a reference, which quite clearly says $750 million.

http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and...ell-Mobile-Ads-on-Android-Smartphones-440644/

 

[vsboxerboy]

$33B in cash...wow

 

[J Macker]

$33B in cash...wow

Doesn't Apple have $50 billion in cash? I thought I had read that somewhere.