Google acquires programming toolmaker PeakStream
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The start-up sells tools for writing software that can take advantage of multicore processors as well as graphics and gaming chips.
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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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(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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Capgemini , Europe&#39;s largest  computer consultancy, said on Monday it would partner U.S.  software group Google Inc  in supporting the Google  Apps software package.
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Internet search leader Google Inc. is in talks to acquire the popular online video site YouTube Inc. for about $1.6 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing a person familiar with the matter.
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Google Inc. on Wednesday branched out into 3-D digital mapping with the acquisition of Keyhole Corp. In its second acquisition this year, Google has bought a startup company that connects consumers, businesses
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(InfoWorld) - Google on Tuesday acquiredÂ Peakstream, a Redwood City, Calif., developer ofÂ software for multicore and parallel processors, the company said. The search giant declined to disclose terms of the deal, Google spokesman Aaron Zamost said by e-mail. Peakstream's flagship product, PeakStream Workstation for Microsoft Windows, was released in beta in March. Peakstream's Web site was not available following the acquisition. A version of its product page cached on Google's Web site described it as the first commercial software product to allow programming of multicore and parallel processors, allowing optimization of these increasingly prevalent chipsets. The company was founded in 2005 by executives from Sun Microsystems, Nvidia, EMC's VMWare, and Network Appliance. In September 2006 it raised $17 million in funding. Â
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Google Inc has open-soured the entirety of Google Web Toolkit to attract more Java developers to use its programming tools to build Ajax Web applications.
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Dips toe into security market Google is acquiring GreenBorder, a Silicon Valley startup that helps protect web users against malware.â¦
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Google Inc.  said on Tuesday it has bought Internet security startup GreenBorder Technologies Inc., which creates secure connections to protect e-mail and Web users from malicious or unwanted computer code.
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(InfoWorld) - Extending its developer outreach, complex event processing software maker StreamBase is making a development environment available as a free plug-in to the Eclipse platform. StreamBase on Monday is unveiling this capability with the StreamBase Developer Edition. The package features the StreamBase Studio developer tool and a non-production version of the StreamBase stream processing engine. Developers can plug the tool into the Eclipse IDE. Developer Edition is available free over the Web. StreamBase Studio previously was based on Eclipse. "What we're finding is you want a Web distribution of your software. [We] want to make it very easy for developers to try out the system," said Michael Stonebraker, founder and CTO of StreamBase. Developers can use the tool to build applications, but once an application is deployed into production, users must purchase a StreamBase license, which starts in price at $95,000. StreamBase's engine is being used in applications ranging from click stream monitoring in e-business systems to financial services and military surveillance. StreamBase with its application development strategy leverages the open source Eclipse plug-in framework. The company's unveiling features and plug-ins to Eclipse that make it easy for developers to connect new data feeds or custom adapters to the StreamBase engine. Input and output plug-ins enable, respectively, the stream processing system to access events and send processed data to enterprise systems. Wizards and templates in the Developer Edition assist with connecting to XML message systems, financial market data feeds, and other data providers. Developers can leverage Eclipse capabilities including testing and debugging, version control, and customer development. Enhancements being unveiled this week will be available online here on Friday as will a re-launched StreamBase Developer Zone, an online resource for developers. It features blogs, sample code, product documentation, and FAQs.
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(InfoWorld) - Just ahead of this Thursday's Google Developer Day 2007 events, Google began offering on Tuesday a release candidate for Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.4, an upgrade to the company's framework for writing AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) applications in Java. Focused on improvements in speed and stability, version 1.4 features optimized output in which applications load faster. Developers can speed up existing Google Web Toolkit applications by recompiling with the 1.4 release candidate, which is downloadable here. The toolkit is intended to make it easier to write AJAX applications such as Google Maps and Gmail. No date has been set for the general release of version 1.4 "This is undoubtedly the biggest GWT release yet," said Bruce Johnson, a developer of the toolkit, in a blog. "In addition to 150-plus bug fixes, GWT 1.4 RC includes a ton of new features, improvements, and optimizations." An ImageBundle capability in version 1.4 creates a single composite image from many small ones, allowing for consolidation of HTTP requests. This improves application responsiveness, the company said. The composite image is permanently cacheable, which means users' time is not spent on bytes they already have, Google said. Version 1.4 also features an enhanced UI library with widgets that make it easier to build user interfaces. A RichText widget provides a simpler way to add sophisticated text-editing capabilities to applications while a SuggestBox widget offers auto-complete functionality that can be tailored to any need, Google said. HorizontalSplitPanel and VerticalSplitPanel capabilities enable resizing of portions of the user interface. Benchmarking functions in the toolkit integrate with the JUnit testing framework, so developers can record and compare the speed of code snippets across different parameters. Internationalization and localization support has been improved with NumberFormat and DateTimeFormat capabilities, which allow developers to parse and format numbers, dates, and times for users worldwide, Google said. The toolkit was launched a year ago and has been used to build products, such as Google Checkout, for online shipping. Google made the toolkit available in an open source format, via an Apache 2.0 license, later in 2006. The company noted that the creators of the toolkit, Johnson and Joel Webber, will speak at Google Developer Day 2007, in San Jose, Calif. on Thursday. Google Developer Day events also are being held in 10 locations around the world for users of Google APIs and developer tools. Places such as Sao Paolo, Brazil; London, and Paris also will host Google developer events on Thursday. Featured on the agenda are discussions on technologies such as Google AJAX APIs, the Google Maps, YouTube APIs, and mashups.
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(InfoWorld) - Google has formed a partnership with Capgemini, which will provide IT services to large businesses that adopt the Google Apps Premier Edition hosted suite of collaboration and communication software. A new member of the Google Enterprise Professional program, Capgemini now offers training, support, integration, and other services for Google Apps Premier Edition customers, the vendors plan to announce Monday. The partnership with Capgemini, one of the world's largest IT services companies with over 75,000 employees in 32 countries, makesÂ Google Apps more palatableÂ to large organizations that prefer IT services providers to assist them with changes and additions to their large, complex IT architectures. "Our overall partner strategy is to make sure that those customers that come on board have the services they need or request," said Kevin Smith, Google's head of enterprise partnerships. In the case ofÂ Google Apps Premier EditionÂ customers, some may hire Capgemini to help them with e-mail migration, with adding the suite to an existing single sign-on system, or with making sure that the Calendar component synchronizes properly with employees devices, Smith said. Meanwhile, Capgemini, which generated revenue of $10.4 billion in 2006, added Google Apps to the portfolio of products it supports because it believes thatÂ demand for software-as-a-service (SaaS) collaboration and communication suites will grow strongly in coming years, company officials said. For Capgemini, offering services for a SaaS suite like Google Apps Premier Edition is a natural extension of its broad expertise providing outsourced desktop support to more than 1 million users worldwide, they said. The Premier Edition, introduced in February, is a fee-based version of the Google Apps suite that is tailored for workplace use in organizations of all sizes. For $50 per user per year, it offers phone technical support, software interfaces for integrating suite components with other systems and more e-mail storage than the free Standard Edition. As CIOs and IT managers in large companies warm up to the idea of these Web-hosted suites, global IT services providers like Capgemini are drawn to develop services for them, said Rebecca Wettemann, an analyst with Nucleus Research Inc. "We'll likely see services providers start to recognize the opportunity to help implement these applications within enterprises, going beyond desktop management and delivering a heterogenous desktop to an organization," Wettemann said. Google, which generates most of its revenue from the consumer market through online ads delivered via its search engines and partner Web sites, has decided to broaden its scope and become a provider of IT products for enterprises. In so doing, it is locking horns with established players in markets like collaboration and communication software, and in enterprise search. Google Apps, with its Web hosted approach to collaboration and communication software, is seen as emblematic of theÂ threat this SAAS model presents to Microsoft's Office, the quintessential fat-client software suite. With an installed base of about 450 million users, Microsoft Office doesn't have a hosted version that is comparable to SAAS suites like Google Apps and others from companies like Zoho, Zimbra and WebEx. Google Apps includes word processing, calendar, Web page creation, spreadsheet applications, Webmail and instant messaging communication services. Among the advantages of Web-hosted applications is that, by holding documents in a central server, they allow users to share files and collaborate on them. Also, because vendors host them, customers don't have to worry about installing or maintaining the software nor about issues with the server hardware in which they run. Downsides include security concerns over the hosting of sensitive data with a vendor outside the corporate firewall, server downtime problems and feature sets that often are less extensive than the ones from packaged software products.
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Google 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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LONDON - Google has acquired US-based digital mapping firm Keyhole Corporation , which allows users to see images of locations from space as well as close up, for an undisclosed sum.
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BERKELEY, California  - Web search leader Google  Inc.  and marketing software maker Salesforce.com Inc.   said on Tuesday they have jointly developed a new  product that lets Google advertising be resold using Salesforce  software, as part of a wide-ranging alliance.
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Web search leader Google Inc.   has begun delivering a set of essential business  software tools to paying subscribers, in a move to widen its  appeal to corporate customers, the company said on Wednesday.