Decadence is cool when Google does it. One of the google guys, Larry Page is getting married tomorrow in style on a tiny island called Necker Island,in the Caribbean, owned by Virgin's Chairman, Richard Branson. According to Forbes, Branson is renting the place out for $15,000 per day for up to seven guests, or $31,000 per day for 26 people.
More on The Wedding here
There's no stopping Google's acquisitions. It has now acquired ImageAmerica, a company that builds high-resolution cameras and uses them to take aerial images.The high-resolution camera can capture details as small as 6 to 12 inches.
The Company has also announced that it would bid at least $4.6 billion in an upcoming auction of the 700MHz wireless spectrum with a vision to free the US airwaves.
You may want to see Google's huge map of products.
Google buys a start-up company once every few days.Its impossible to imagine that google was launched only in 1998. The journey has been stratospheric for the company which started as a search engine one and now has branched into different applications.
Among its most recent acquisitions are GrandCentral Communications,an innovative service that lets users integrate all of their existing phone numbers and voice mailboxes into one account and which can be accessed from the web and Postini, a company which offers security and corporate compliance solutions for email, IM, and other web-based communications among other things.Postini was bought for $625 million.
I found an enormous map of Google products from Zorgloob,a French blog,via Google Blogoscoped. Click on the image below and view it on its largest size for a reality check of google's enormous empire.
If you have got something to hide or some sleazy place to go to, beware! Google Maps can catch you in the act of going in or coming out of those secret hideouts and put your view on cyberspace for all to see! See some funny street sightings here.
