Two aquisition in one week and GOOG is at 351.16 USD today. The second aquisition this week is a little surprising for me, since it’s about a 3D Design Program called SketchUp. The guys at @Last Software are themselves surprised ! Things started by writing a SketchUp plugin for Google Earth and finished by finding a more solid partnership to bring things up.
WHAT’S NEW?
Well, about the biggest thing ever: we’ve been Googled. That’s right, Google Inc. has acquired @Last Software… so you might have just spit your coffee all over your keyboard, or you’re rolling your eyes thinking this is another one of my April Fool’s jokes. Believe me, we’re still having a hard time believing it ourselves, but it’s real — we are now Google!
WHAT??!
Wow…where to start? You have to be wondering what this means for SketchUp. Are we going to give up on design and all the cool new features and products we have in the pipeline? No way! In fact, the mission doesn’t change at all. We’re all about enabling users to express themselves in 3D and share their vision with others. Architects, builders, woodworkers, gamers, students and my Uncle Bob all want basically the same thing: the most intuitive tools to help them create and share their 3D dreams. So we’ll stay the course. (Only now we have just a smidge more horsepower…)
I can’t stress this enough: the 3D world just got a huge boost, so please don’t worry about SketchUp or our mission. Think about it this way: we haven’t traded in the Honda for a Porsche; we’ve strapped a rocket to the Honda. SketchUp is still SketchUp, but now it will go places it couldn’t possibly have gone before.
Source SketchUp Press release
