Acquisition news in the tech and social media industries includes: Salesforce.com and Oracle buying social media intelligence; EMC acquiring performance management and Google gains productivity software with mobile capability.

Google has a security mascot at its Oklahoma data center. Miss G is a one-eyed dog that was adopted by the Google data center team after they found the injured canine on the data center property. "Miss G is our secret weapon," says site manager...

Google has confirmed that it will invest $300 million in expanding its data center operations in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Coming four years after the opening of the company's first facility in Iowa, the expansion will bring Google’s investment in...

Google invested $607 million in its Internet infrastructure in the first quarter of 2012, significantly lower than its spending in the previous quarter.

Google announced an expansion ot its data center in Pryor, Oklahoma that will add a second building at the campus. The company said the initiative will double its server capacity in Oklahoma and add 50 jobs, primarily for local residents.

Google subsidiary Google Fiber, Inc. is seeking permission to place large satellite antennas on land near its data center in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The antennas could be used to receive content feeds from broadcast networks that could be bundled...