| Google buys two startups - Apture, Katango
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vik_c
msg:4385830 | 9:13 am on Nov 11, 2011 (gmt 0) |
| Google continues to gobble up interesting start-ups. On Thursday, the Internet giant said it bought two: Apture, which makes text on any Web page come to life by letting readers do “in-page search,” and Katango, which helps people automatically organize their online social contacts |
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| Apture was started in 2007 by Stanford University students Tristan Harris and Can Sar, now 27 years old. They will join the Google Chrome team. |
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| The staffs of Katango and Apture join a long roster of Nooglers, or new Googlers, who arrived via acquisition this year. Google made 57 mostly small acquisitions during the first nine months of the year, according to a recent securities filing. |
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Clearly Google has been trying to acquire talent more than companies.
Read more at
[blogs.wsj.com ]
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