How Did Microsoft Impact The Acquisition Of Google

Since the creation of google in September 1998 there has been many acquisitions that has helped google establish themselves as juggernaut amongst other competitors. Google, a multinational multi-product corporation best known for its internet search engine has since expanded its work and has included many other features to their system. My goal for this paper is to inform the reader of googles biggest acquisitions and give a better understanding on how these acquisitions were brought to Google, why were they acquired, what impact the acquisitions have upon Google and last, I will explain how they were able to acquire each of the companies and maintain their miraculous growth.
The first Google 's acquisition I will touch on is YouTube. YouTube a very popular video-sharing website was bought by Google in in 2006 for $1.65 billion. There are many reason why Google bought YouTube, but one of the most obvious reason would be because YouTube is one of the top video websites in the world. When one thinks of online video’s YouTube is the next thing that is usually the next name …show more content…
I am referring to Motorola Mobility, Google bought Motorola mobility for $13.4 billion dollars. Motorola mobility is a company that produces cell phones, smart phones, and smart watches. This was a good buy for Google and Motorola Mobility has the ability to speed up innovation and make it so the customer will get better products and a more reasonable price. With Motorola having such great phones and Google having such a great operating system combining the two would only speed innovation. But Google later decided to sell Motorola at a cheaper price then they purchased it for. From the research I gathered I believe that google did this so they could focus on their previous purchase of android and to focus on what the company gets most of its revenue from and that being