The American site Google bought the Brazilian Akwan Information Technologies, specialized in websearch technology. The company will become the Google's Research and Development Center in Latin America. The value of the transaction was not disclosed. Owner of the search site todobr.com.br, Akwan was created by a group of professors of the Federal University of Minas Gerais. With the acquisition, the Akwan website is already being directed for Google brazilian domain.
Google informs that the purchase of the Brazilian company increases its efforts of engineering and conscription in all Latin America. The new regional center of R&D will be sixth of the American site, that today has units of research in Tokyo (Japan), Zurich (Switzerland), Bangalore (India) and New York and Mountain View (U.S.A.). Google intends to contract new talents in Brazil and other countries of Latin America for the new center of research.
Vacants for the company are opened in the site www.google.com.br/jobs
* Akwan Information Technologies is a Brazilian company of solutions in information technology. Hosted in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, was founded by Professor Nivio Ziviani. Ziviani is Ph.D. in Computer science for the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is Titular Professor of the UFMG Department of Computer Science, where he co-ordinates the Laboratory for Information Treatment (LATIN). He is co-founder of the Miner Technology Group, that was sold for the Group Folha/UOL in June of 1999, and Akwan Information Technologies, sold for Google Incorporation in July of 2005.
Thursday, August 04, 2005
