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Google to Buy Cloud Company Looker for $2.6 Billion

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 15 2019, @08:51PM   Printer-friendly
from the embrace,-extend-er,-no,-that's-the-other-one dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

Google's cloud is getting very big, but it plans on getting bigger.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google announced Thursday that it plans to buy Looker, a business-intelligence and big-data analytics company, for $2.6 billion in cash.

[...] The acquisition builds on an existing four-year-old partnership between the companies, which already share more than 350 joint customers like Buzzfeed, Hearst, Sunrun and Yahoo, Google said in a news release,

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:36PM (6 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:36PM (#856085)

    They're obviously laundering drug and corruption money.

    The fucking IRS isn't doing its job!

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:42PM (5 children)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:42PM (#856086) Journal

    Cloud is serious business. Long live Cloud.

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    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:52PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:52PM (#856090)

      the future is so bright...wait, it's cloudy out i can't see a damn thing.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:32AM (1 child)

      by Gaaark (41) on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:32AM (#856123) Journal

      HEY! YOU! Get off of my something something I don't remember.....too old to rock and roll, too young to die.

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @12:45PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @12:45PM (#856234)

      Yo, dawg, we heard you like cloud so we bought some more cloud to put in your cloud.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:19PM (#856252)

      hey what new domains do we need to block?

      the cloud and its tracking and marketing is long lived indeed and has worn out its welcome, but domain blocking never gets old.