[garethsprice]

To save someone else a few seconds with a calculator, that's an average of just over 24 million per acquisition. Not that each was acquired for an equal amount.

[jimminy]

And when you factor out just the ITA acquisition, as it was pointed out in the article, it drops to just over 15 million per acquisition.

[CWIZO]

What about Motorola Mobile that Google took over? Is that part of this $1.9 bilion?

[profitbaron]

The $1.9 Billion Google spent on acquistions excludes the Motorola deal. As the Motorola deal is expected to close sometime in 2012, so their $12.5 Billion acquistion would be included in the 2012 numbers - of course this is still up for regulatory approval.