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on Saturday June 15 2019, @08:51PM
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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,
Also reported at:
- https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/06/google-to-acquire-analytics-startup-looker-for-2-6-billion/
- https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2019/06/07/4-reasons-google-bought-looker/#5ae933486dcd
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @11:25PM
Standard rules apply: You wager $5.00 (real money not Facebook cryptocoins) on whatever date you expect Google to lose interest, and whoever is closest to actual shutdown date for Looker wins the pool. Google employees and their family members are not eligible to participate.