M&A Deal Summary

Google Acquires Tatter & Co.

On September 12, 2008, Google acquired software company Tatter & Co.

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Google’s 24th transaction in the Software sector.
  • This is Google’s 1st transaction in South Korea.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2008-09-12
Target Tatter & Co.
Sector Software
Buyer(s) Google
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Tatter & Co.

Seoul, South Korea
TNC is a Korean blogging platform is similar to Automattic,a company that makes software to complement and extend the open source WordPress blog publishing platform.

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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 48 of 225
Sector: Software M&A 24 of 76
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 46 of 217
Country: South Korea M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2008 M&A 3 of 3
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-07-30 Omnisio

Atherton, California, United States

Omnisio allows users to extract sections of clips they find on the web (currently only those on YouTube, Google Video, or Blip.tv). They can then take those clips and stitch them together to form new, embeddable compilations.

Buy $15M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2009-08-05 On2 Technologies

Clifton Park, New York, United States

On2 Technologies, Inc. creates advanced video compression technologies that power the video in today's leading desktop and mobile applications and devices.

Buy $107M