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 Rosco P. Coltrane on Sunday June 16 2019, @12:35AM (5 children)
Ma Bell was broken up before they got even remotely as monopolistic as Google... It never ceases to amaze me how Google managed to get so impossible to rein in without anybody seeing it coming.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:20AM
The government needs its intelligence feed.
(Score: 2) by captain normal on Sunday June 16 2019, @01:46AM
Once again, I remind you, we have the best government that money can buy.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts"- --Daniel Patrick Moynihan--
(Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:10AM (1 child)
Maybe because they don't actually charge the end consumer for any of their services? Describing them as "too bigly to rein in" could wake up the proletariat to the possibility that something other than the exchange of money could be behind how America works, or simply that the US dollar may not be the most powerful thing in the world. Aside from love, I mean. And the Hulk, and possibly Superman.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:17AM
They may not charge the end user for most things, but they certainly charge their customers many billions of dollars per year.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:30AM
Considering how many patents are granted for $thing_so_old_it_can't_be_patented + $on_a_computer, I'm not really surprised that the powers that be and general populace are slow to react to $standard_monopoly_actions + on_a_computer.