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kwanbis
5th August 2009, 19:39
Google and On2 Technologies jointly announced today that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Google will acquire On2, a developer of video compression technology. The acquisition is expected to close later this year. On2 markets video compression technologies that power high-quality video in both desktop and mobile applications and devices and also holds a number of interesting patents.
LINK (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/05/google-acquires-video-compression-technology-company-on2-for-106-million/)

I smell google releasing VP8 as open source.