Lewis Rollins. Google owns over 170 companies that it has acquired since 2010, averaging more than one acquisition per week. Its largest acquisition was Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion, though it later sold Motorola to Lenovo for $2.91 billion while keeping the valuable patent portfolio. Google also owns companies like Green Throttle Games and acquired Quest Visual in 2014. It purchased YouTube in 2006.

1. Lewis Rollins.

2. Who do they own?
• Computer software web search engine ‘Google’ have been acquiring on average more than
on company a week since 2010.
• Google have acquired over 170 companies, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of
Motorola Mobility a mobile device manufacturing company, for a sum of $12.5 billion.
• However, on January 29 2014, Google announced it was selling it’s Motorola Mobility unit to
China-based Lenovo, for $2.91bn. The company did keep the extensive patent collection
which is used to develop Android products, considered the most valuable part of the deal.
• Other companies they own includes Green Throttle Games which developed a Bluetooth
gaming controller for Android. In May 2014 Google announced the purchase of Quest Visual.
• Google bought Social Media giants YouTube back in October 9th 2006.

3. History of Google
• Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin,
when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.
• As of September 2013, Google operates 70 offices in more than 40 different
countries.
• Google celebrated its 15-year anniversary on September 17, 2013. Although it has
used other dates for its official birthday . A dispute with rival search engine Yahoo!
Search in 2005 has been suggested as the cause.
• In February 2003, Google acquired Pyra Labs, who owns Blogger, a web log hosting
website. The acquisition secured the company’s competitive ability to use
information gleaned from blog postings to improve the speed and relevance of
articles contained in a companion product to the search engine Google News.

4. Interesting Facts about Google
• There are more than 2 million Google searches per second.
• In 2013, about 91% of Google’s $55.5 billion in revenue came from
advertising alone.
• Google has photographed more than five million miles of road for it’s
Street View maps.
• Google has acquired 24 companies this year alone – that’s about three
companies a month.
• Over six billion hours of video are watched each month on YouTube, that’s
almost an hour every person on Earth.
• Google bought Social Media giants YouTube back in October 9th 2006.