Google, this week added a new dot com giant in its list of acquisitions. Google has acquired a CA-based online video startup called Omnisio.com. It was launched in March this year. Here users can mash up various YouTube clips and stitch them together to make their own videos or slideshare presentations with extra comments, audio, and images. This video site was started by three Australian entrepreneurs Ryan Junee, Julian Frumar and Simon Ratner. According to TechCrunch, Google has paid 15 million USD for this deal. Google has future plans to integrate this exciting video service with Youtube.
Now after this integration YouTube users will be able to mash up YouTube and other video content for use in blogs and Web sites. Now video owners may embed ads directly into their videos and Google could make it even easier by supplying the ads based on the tags embedded into the video, and at the appropriate points with spotlight and notes at specific points in the video, A Google official said.
This is the list of different companies acquired by Google till now.
Acquisition date Company Derived services
February 2001 Deja Google Groups
September 2001 Outride Google Personalized Search
February 2003 Pyra Labs Blogger
April 2003 Neotonic Software Google Groups, Gmail
April 2003 Applied Semantics AdSense, AdWords
September 2003 Kaltix iGoogle
October 2003 Sprinks AdSense, AdWords
October 2003 Genius Labs Blogger
May 2004 Ignite Logic Google Page Creator
June 2004 BaiduA
July 2004 Picasa Picasa, Blogger
September 2004 ZipDash Google Ride Finder
October 2004 Where2 Google Maps
October 2004 Keyhole, Inc Google Maps, Google Earth
March 2005 Urchin Software Corporation Google Analytics
May 2005 Dodgeball Google Mobile, Google SMS
July 2005 Reqwireless Google Mobile
July 2005 Current Communications Group Internet backbone
August 2005 Android Android
November 2005 Skia Android
November 2005 Akwan Information Technologies Internet backbone
December 2005 AOLB
December 2005 Phatbits Google Desktop
December 2005 allPAY GmbH Google Mobile
December 2005 bruNET GmbH Google Mobile
January 2006 dMarc Broadcasting AdSense
February 2006 Measure Map Google Analytics
March 2006 Upstartle Google Documents
March 2006 @Last Software Google Sketchup
April 2006 Orion Google Search
June 2006 2Web Technologies Google Spreadsheet
August 2006 Neven Vision Google Maps
October 2006 YouTube YouTube
October 2006 JotSpot Google Sites
December 2006 Endoxon Google Maps
January 2007 XunleiC
February 2007 Adscape AdSense
March 2007 Trendalyzer Google Analytics
April 2007 Tonic Systems Google Documents
April 2007Marratech Google Talk
April 2007 DoubleClick AdSense
May 2007 GreenBorder Internal use
June 2007 Panoramio Blogger Maps
June 2007 FeedBurner Google Reader
June 2007 PeakStream Server (computing)
June 2007 Zenter Google Documents
July 2007 GrandCentral Google Mobile
July 2007 Image America Google Maps
July 2007 Postini Gmail
September 2007 Zingku Google Mobile
October 2007 Jaiku Google Mobile
July 2008 Begun Google Adwords
July 2008 Omnisio YouTube

