Google's New Shopping List

摘要

Over The Last Two Years Google has been a ferocious, startupmunching acquisition machine. In 2010 it did 48 deals. In 2011 the company announced a record 79 purchases and investments, shelling out about $2 billion, not counting the still-pending deal to buy Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. But here we are one-quarter of the way through 2012, and there have been no deals at all. Radio silence. Zilch. Has Google's once-hearty appetite for acquisitions been sated?