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Thursday, July 15, 2004

Google Acquires Picasa for Online Photo Management

NewsFactor: "Google has acquired Picasa, which makes software for organizing digital photos and sharing them over peer-to-peer networks. Google previously had announced that Picasa's Hello software would be incorporated into Google's Blogger service. ... The Picasa deal marks Google's efforts to compete with rivals AOL Latest News about AOL Time Warner, Yahoo Latest News about Yahoo and Microsoft Latest News about Microsoft in developing Web services, a strategy that it has pursued through acquisitions. The acquisition of Picasa follows last year's acquisition of Blogger.com from Pyra Labs to create Google's free Web-based service for publishing text and images on the Internet."

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