M&A Deal Summary

Google Acquires Akwan Information Technologies

On November 17, 2005, Google acquired internet software and services company Akwan Information Technologies

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Google’s 10th transaction in the Internet Software and Services sector.
  • This is Google’s 1st transaction in Brazil.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2005-11-17
Target Akwan Information Technologies
Sector Internet Software and Services
Buyer(s) Google
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Akwan Information Technologies

Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Akwan Information Technologies was a search engine based in Brazil.

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Buyer

Google

Mountain View, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1998
Sector Internet Software and Services
Employees190,234
Revenue 350.0B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
View of Google's corporate campus in Mountain View, California.
View of Google's corporate campus in Mountain View, California.

Google is a global provider of search and advertising services. In addition to its search engine, Google offers online tools and platforms including: Gmail, Google Apps, Google Maps, and YouTube. Google was incorporated in 1998 and is based in Mountain View, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 225
Sector: Internet Software and Services M&A 10 of 104
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 18 of 217
Country: Brazil M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2005 M&A 6 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-10-01 Skia

United States

Skia was a technology company that provides 2D graphics to mobile devices, TVs, and other handhelds. Skia’s first product was called SGL, a portable graphics engine that was capable of loading 2D graphics. Google rolled these capabilities into Google Android. Google also made the Skia Graphics Engine

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-12-27 Phatbits.com

United States

Phatbits.com was a widget company that was started by a former Software Development Lead at Microsoft.e widget engine was instrumental in creating widget applications for Google Desktop.

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