Cloud Computing: Google’s Busy Month of Acquisitions Continues Buying Spree

Grazed from eWeek.  Author: Todd R. Weiss.

Since April, Google has acquired at least four companies—Stackdriver, Appetas, Adometry and Titan Aerospace. For most acquirers, that might be enough for a year or even five years, but for Google, it’s just its way of doing business.  On May 7, Google announced the purchase of Stackdriver, a Boston-based company that was started in 2012 to provide cloud application monitoring services to users.

In a post on the Stackdriver blog, the company’s leaders wrote that they had started it to help businesses use data visualization and analytics to better monitor their cloud applications. Neither company commented on the deal after being contacted by eWEEK…


On the same day, Google acquired Appetas, which helps restaurants build, maintain, promote and grow specialized Websites that serve the needs of the food industry…

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