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Google to Buy Cloud Company Looker for $2.6 Billion

posted by janrinok on Saturday June 15 2019, @08:51PM   
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,

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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• Re:How has Google not run foul of antitrust laws y Re:How has Google not run foul of antitrust laws y (Score: 2) by krishnoid on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:10AM (1 child)

  by krishnoid (1156) on Sunday June 16 2019, @03:10AM (#856143)

  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.

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• Re:How has Google not run foul of antitrust laws y (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:17AM

  by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:17AM (#856165)

  Maybe because they don't actually charge the end consumer for any of their services?

  They may not charge the end user for most things, but they certainly charge their customers many billions of dollars per year.

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