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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 Sunday June 16 2019, @04:30AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 16 2019, @04:30AM (#856159)

    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.