Google Acquires Widget Creator LabPixies

on 04/27/2010 09:29 PDT

It seems that there is an acquisition by Google or Apple every other week, and now it’s Google’s turn. The search engine giant has just snapped up LabPixies, the company that Google works with to create many of the widgets on its personalized portal, iGoogle. While the exact sum of the acquisition wasn’t mentioned, word is going around that the company was snatched up for $15m-$25m. So which company do you think Google has set its sights on next?

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