Wasn't V8 developed by Bak & co in a separate company, which was bought by Google? (Didn't find any source, but based on what I thought I read in the news at that time ...)
v8 wasn't developed by a separate company, but Bak did bring at least one of his colleagues along to Google (I'm pretty sure just as new employees to Google). And he had another company that worked on a SmallTalk VM called OOVM, targeted at embedded devices, right before he joined Google:
https://astares.blogspot.com/2012/04/inside-oovm.html
However it apparently wasn't acquired by Google:
http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20040727005088/en/Esme...
Other discussion:
I say unfortunate because pretty much all the big data frameworks could be called "cloud dataflow", including TensorFlow itself.
People using Google Cloud might recognize the name of VP Urs Hoezle, who worked on the OO language Self in the 90's with a lot of the same people [3].
And AFAIK that's where v8 came from... Urs hired his former colleague Lars Bak and told him to write a fast JavaScript interpreter for Chrome.
[1] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub35650.html [2] https://research.google.com/pubs/pub43864.html [3] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=619798