Today I found two posts very interesting from Google. First it was Google announcing that they’ve put together a Mac Division per say to help make Google as compatible as possible with the Mac. The second was that they officially announced the purchase of YouTube for 1.65 Billions Dollars. (Yes that was a B).
If you sit down at your Mac, start up your browser, and search for “Google mission statement”, this is what you’ll see:
“Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.”
We’re pretty serious about that mission, including the “universally accessible” part. It means making products that everyone can use – including Mac users. We want to provide great products and services to the tens of millions of Mac users around the world, because it’s the right thing to do, and because Mac users inside and outside Google demand it. That’s why we’ve recruited some of the best, most passionate Mac people out there for a Mac Engineering team. You can already check out the first results of their efforts at www.google.com/mac
Well it’s cool that Google finally sat down and created a group whose sole focus will be the Mac. Other groups have worked with outsiders to get various Google projects compatible with the Mac, but this is the first actual sign of a Google Group.
Also in todays news was that Google made the purchase of YouTube Official.
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire YouTube, the consumer media company for people to watch and share original videos through a Web experience, for $1.65 billion in a stock-for-stock transaction. Following the acquisition, YouTube will operate independently to preserve its successful brand and passionate community.
The acquisition combines one of the largest and fastest growing online video entertainment communities with Google’s expertise in organizing information and creating new models for advertising on the Internet. The combined companies will focus on providing a better, more comprehensive experience for users interested in uploading, watching and sharing videos, and will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience.
“The YouTube team has built an exciting and powerful media platform that complements Google’s mission to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” said Eric Schmidt, Chief Executive Officer of Google. “Our companies share similar values; we both always put our users first and are committed to innovating to improve their experience. Together, we are natural partners to offer a compelling media entertainment service to users, content owners and advertisers.”
There is a lot more in there post, but the important things was that YouTube will remain a seperate entity. I wonder if that means Google Video was going to die out? It certainly looks as though YouTube isn’t going to be renamed GooTube. (I just lost $5 there).
Tags: Apple, Financial, Google, Interesting, YouTube
