Claim: Trendalyzer, an interactive software for visualizing statistical information developed by Anna Rosling Rönnlund and her husband Ola Rosling, was sold to Google in 2006.
Evidence: Trendalyzer is an information visualization software for animation of statistics that was initially developed by Hans Rosling's Gapminder Foundation in Sweden. In March 2007 it was acquired by Google Inc. The current beta version is a Flash application that is preloaded with statistical and historical data about the development of the countries of the world. His posthumously published book Factfulness, coauthored with Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling, became an international bestseller.