Website News Blog http://blog.websitevaluebot.com Website Value Blog Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:55:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Google Acquires Like.com http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/google-acquires-like-com http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/google-acquires-like-com#comments Sat, 21 Aug 2010 17:55:03 +0000 WebsiteValueBot http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/?p=18 This has been announced on the like.com homepage. Google Have recently acquired Like.com for a rumored $100 million. Speculation into why Google purchased Like.com website rangers from Google wanting like.com’s team of engineers, to the domain name, to potentially starting a social network and also to compete with the Facebook Like social application.

Like.com has an annual turnover of $50 million so this acquisition by Google seems to be a smart one overall. Like.com have a break-through search technology into images where the other major search engines lag behind. Like.com is currently an e-commerce website which is selling clothing and accessories.

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]]> http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/google-acquires-like-com/feed 0 Google Aquires Jambool.com http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/google-aquires-jambool-com http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/google-aquires-jambool-com#comments Wed, 18 Aug 2010 16:39:10 +0000 WebsiteValueBot http://blog.websitevaluebot.com/?p=11 This acquisition took place in the anticipation leading to the launch of Google games which will be launched later this year. This acquisition has been rumored to be worth $70 million.

Jambool.com is a in-game payment processor which gives game developers the opportunity to implement payments into their game. Jambool.com has been up and running since 2006.

More information can be found here: http://techcrunch.com/2010/08/13/google-confirms-jambool-acquisition/

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