Google has acquired around 184 companies as of October 2015, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion. Not all the acquisition figures are available but aggregating all the public known amounts, Google has spent atleast 28 billion USD on acquisitions.
With the recent re-structuring, Google became a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., which now owns most of the parts.
Using infocaptor dashboard software, we analyze the list of companies, products and services that Google has acquired since 2001.
Read more at http://www.infocaptor.com/dashboard/list-of-google-acquisitions-explained-with-visualizations