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Even if it doesn't seem too active anymore, try crunchbase.com. Extensive information about Google's acquisitions and investments can be found in this JSON document (licensed CC-BY, license policy). As for sub-companies of Google, try this OpenCorporates Search. Very useful and big +1 for the link to the license (though please, if you can, specify which cc-license as some open and some aren't).
(20 Jan '11, 12:56)
rgrp ♦♦
Added details to cc-license (it's cc-by in this case).
(20 Jan '11, 13:16)
stefanw ♦
Thanks for the additions. There's also a CKAN package for crunchbase.
(22 Jan '11, 00:56)
rgrp ♦♦
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There is a list of acquisitions by Google on WIkipedia: List of acquisitions by Google (you'd have to scrape the table to get the actual "data", such as it is, though...) Freebase looks like it has some data - e.g. the "child" relation on the Google page appears to point to companies Google owns? [http://www.freebase.com/view/en/google/-/organization/organization/child] |
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http://api.corpwatch.org has some subsidiary data for Google scraped from SEC 10-K filings. search and view in map browser: http://croctail.corpwatch.org/#cw_35783,cw_35783,2010 Or pull from api: http://api.corpwatch.org/2008/companies/cw_35783/children.json ('tho this specific method only works if there's just one level of children) |
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it is probably incomplete, but you can look at http://dbpedia.org/resource/Google and use the properties dbpedia-owl:subsidiary and dbpedia-owl:owner-of to get an initial list. |
The same question might also apply to other companies, such as Amazon, or Pearson.
on a side note @rgrp: Barbara Van Schewick: "... * A non-discrimination rule that would ban discrimination that causes harm to users or harm to competition. Whether these conditions (anticompetitive, harm to users) are met would be decided by the regulatory agency in case-by-case adjudication. Such a rule was part of the Google-Verizon legislative proposal." http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1684677