On 4/26/2014 6:48 AM, Knapp wrote:


No expert but I have run into this google fact a few times.
On average, Google has acquired more than one company every week since 2010.

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-mind-blowing-facts-about-google-2013-5?op=1#ixzz2zzoufEAd 

But those companies are usually small and very specialized.  It isn't like they're acquiring Lockheed, a couple of shipyards, a chip foundry or two, a home goods manufacturer, etc.  Everything that Google procures furthers their aim of making *you* the product rather than making products for you to purchase and use.

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