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: 2) by takyon on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:42PM (5 children)
Cloud is serious business. Long live Cloud.
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:52PM
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)
HEY! YOU! Get off of my something something I don't remember.....too old to rock and roll, too young to die.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:43AM
Too old....
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @12:45PM
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
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.