Google acquires Panoramio
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Adds photo-sharing to its panoply of services Google continued its attempts to offer every service imaginable online by purchasing a Spanish photo-sharing website.â¦
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Google gets into the Web registration business.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has acquired FeedBurner, a provider of publishing and advertising services for blogs and content syndication feed. FeedBurner's technology will boost Google's ad network and Web publishing services, Google said. Terms of the deal, which has closed, weren't revealed. FeedBurner will continue operating as it has until now, so existing customers shouldn't experience any interruptions in service. New customers will be able to continue signing up for FeedBurner services as well. Meanwhile, Google will work to integrate FeedBurner's technologies with a number of its own products. The volume of Web content and advertising delivered via RSS and Atom feeds has increased significantly in recent years, and Google feels that by acquiring FeedBurner it will be able to capitalize on this growth and expand its advertising reach. FeedBurner, which has more than 400,000 publishers on its network, will beef up Google's own AdSense publisher network, particularly among blogs, where FeedBurner is stronger than Google, said Susan Wojcicki, vice president of product management at Google, during a press conference. Likewise, Google advertisers will benefit from an expanded ad inventory and ad distribution platform. Finally, FeedBurner shares Google's philosophy of helping end-users find information online with FeedBurner focused on blogs and feeds and Google on search. "We think this will be a win for users, publishers, and advertisers on the Internet," she said. FeedBurner, a privately-held company founded in 2003, helps publishers and advertisers with "the spiraling complexity" of online media distribution compounded by RSS feeds, widget applications, and mobile devices, said Dick Costolo, FeedBurner's CEO and co-founder. "FeedBurner's focus on delivering the right media to the right end point and measuring all that for the publisher means we've got a great opportunity to combine our vision with Google's vision for organizing the world's information," he said. Despite the executives' enthusiasm, they acknowledged that prior to the acquisition, neither Google nor FeedBurner blocked their respective publishers and advertisers from signing up for each other's services. Because nothing has prevented publishers and advertisers from taking advantage of both companies' offerings, the real benefits will not materialize until concrete integration happens between the companies' services and operations. "We're working on how the products will be integrated, but we want AdWords advertisers to very easily have access to the feeds, and we want the FeedBurner publishers to potentially have access to other Google services," Wojcicki said. Google hasn't been as active as it should have been in the area of syndicated feed advertising, she said. Beyond the obvious synergy with the Google ad network, FeedBurner services and products could be complementary to Google's syndicated feed manager Reader and Google's Analytics service for tracking sites' usage, she said. FeedBurner, which has about 30 employees and raised about $10 million in venture capital funding, will keep its operations in Chicago, Costolo said. This story was updated on June 1, 2007
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By Jeff Smith  Terrific navigational device or over the edge?  That's a question many are asking about Google Inc.'s newest map feature, Street View, which offers panoramic images of Denver's downtown streets and those of four other cities.
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Google acquires FeedBurner, a provider of publishing and advertising services for blogs and content syndication feed.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Google announced Friday it bought FeedBurner, a Chicago-based company focused on distributing digital media through a technology known as RSS, or Really Simple Syndication.
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By Ryan Blitstein and Dean Takahashi, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Feb. 17--Google has acquired San Francisco in-game advertising company AdScape Media, according to a news report.
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DigitalGlobe, provider of imagery  for Google Inc.'s  interactive mapping program Google  Earth, said a new high-resolution satellite will boost the  accuracy of its satellite images and flesh out its archive.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. Online search engine leader Google has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corporation. The acquisition is a continuation of Google&#39;s efforts to broaden its horizons in the face of tougher competition.
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Google acquired voice communications management company GrandCentral on Monday, a move that it hopes will strengthen its service offerings.
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Google Inc. has bought digital map maker Keyhole Corp., extending the search engine leader's bid to fend off rivals with a toolbox that can catalog almost anything in the world.
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Augmenting its technology assets and pushing into subscription services, Google (Quote, Chart) announced today that it has acquired digital mapping specialist Keyhole for an undisclosed sum.
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Between the Lines Blog Google Earth has just incorporated information from Wikipedia, Panoramio, and the Google Earth Community making it possible for you to fly all around the world, stop off anywhere, and see what people have said about the place. Larry Dignan observes that it&#146;s now not much of a stretch to add more local information and Google Checkout. ...
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Google today added to its search technology holdings with the acquisition of digital mapping company Keyhole Corp, a move that has implications for its local search strategy and marks the company&#39;s expansion into subscription-based services.
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New ground-based city views wow the crowd Google yesterday announced the immediate availability of "Street View" - ground-level, photographic panoramas of Denver, Las Vegas, Miami and New York which allow Google Maps surfers to "navigate around a city, 'virtually' walking the streets, checking out restaurants and landmarks and even zoom in on bus stops or street signs to make travel plans":â¦
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Led by John Hanke, Google Earth and Google Maps are delivering cartography tools to the masses.
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Search enabler Google says it has acquired digital mapping company Keyhole for an undisclosed sum. Keyhole maintains a multiterabyte database of digital images of geographic locations, culled from satellite and aerial snapshots.