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Google’s 2010 acquisition-spending spree has so far involved 40 companies and a total of $1.6 billion, the company revealed today. It’s been a busy year for the men and women of Google’s mergers-and-acquisitions team, closing an average of 4.4 deals a month, according to Google’s quarterly report filed with the U.s. Securities and Exchange Commission [...]

Google plans to acquire video and VoIP (Voice over IP) codec developer Global IP Solutions (GIPS) for approximately 421 million Norwegian kronor ($68.2 million) in cash, the company said on Tuesday. GIPS develops codecs for encoding real-time video and voice signals into a digital format for transport over IP networks. The company has also developed [...]

Google spent more than $250 million on a total of 10 acquisitions during the first quarter of the year, putting it on quite a pace for 2010. Most of the individual companies that Google buys are pretty small, and sell for prices low enough that Google doesn’t have to disclose how much it paid because [...]

In a decision that deprives open-source foes of some rhetorical fodder, the group that licenses patents for the widely used H.264 video-encoding technology chose to renew a streaming-media freebie through 2015. MPEG LA licenses more than 1,000 H.264-related patents on behalf of 26 companies that hold the patents. The group’s existing policy, which runs through [...]

The Federal Trade Commission has asked Google to provide more information about its pending acquisition of AdMob before giving that deal final approval. Google disclosed the “second request” in a blog post Wednesday afternoon, saying “while this means we won’t be closing right away, we’re confident that the FTC will conclude that the rapidly growing [...]