<ul><li>Google strategically acquires companies either to catch up and dominate an industry quickly or to invest in future core businesses.</li><li>Google's major acquisitions have evolved through different strategic focus phases, including foundation, expansion, diversification, and enterprise cloud phases.</li><li>Strategic motivations for acquisitions include eliminating competition, market expansion, technology acquisition, IP protection, talent acquisition, core product enhancement, and user & data acquisition.</li><li>The recent acquisition of Wiz for $32 billion is a key move in cloud and AI security, enhancing Google's cloud security leadership, multi-cloud strategy, and competitive differentiation.</li></ul>

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