On Acquisition and IT Industry

Big day for acquisition (Google and EA). As usual, big media have better insight for you readers:

• Why Google Is Buying AdMob - BusinessWeek
  • The Wisdom Of AdMob’s Founder Omar Hamoui from WSJ
  • Targets for Google's Merger Machine including OneRiot and Bit.ly
• What EA Sees in Social Gamer Playfish - BusinessWeek

My thought: while it is not official yet, buying Gizmo 5 means nothing at all, especially when compared with Skype liberation. Gizmo 5 will be yet another plugin for Google Talk/another jigsaw for not-so-important VoIP masterplan. But AdMob is essential.

Buying Playfish is also important. It shows us where is the next landscape EA is going to reach.