Google to acquire one company a month

In a recent interview to Reuters Television, Google Inc Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said acquisitions are "turned on again". Eric Schmidt in the interview went ahead to say " My estimate would be one-a-month acquisitions, and these are largely in lieu of hiring".

Google, the world's No. 1 Web search company has historically maintained a steady pace of acquiring small and privately held companies over a stretch of period. However post September 2009 Google has been in a acquisition spree, it has already acquired 9 companies post September 2009, the latest being announced on March 3rd.

Here is a insight on some of the major and the recent mergers and acquisitions Google had.

The Famous ones...
In June 2004 Google acquired Baidu, which was a very promiment Chinese language search engine. The deal went through for approx. $5,000,000. The next major acquistion was of YouTube in the October 2006. YouTube was one of the most famous video sharing website. The deal was closed at approx $1,650,000,000.

The Recent ones...

Date	Company	Service Area	Google Product
September-09	reCAPTCHA	Security	All Products
November-09	AdMob	Mobile advertising	Adsense/Adword
November-09	Gizmo5	VoIP	Google Voice
November-09	Teracent	Online Advertising	Adsense
December-09	AppJet (EtherPad)	Collaborative real-time editor	Google Wave
February-10	Aardvark	Social Search	Google Search
February-10	reMail	Email Search	Gmail
March-10	Picnik	Photo Editing	Picasa
March-10	DocVerse	Microsoft Office files sharing site	Google Docs