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janrinok
on Saturday June 15 2019, @08:51PM
from the embrace,-extend-er,-no,-that's-the-other-one dept.
from the embrace,-extend-er,-no,-that's-the-other-one dept.
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: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @09:33PM
Buy them.
Sifting throught the texts, seems to be that way.
On a super side note and completely rumor status, I was told that most strong tech people left google and what's keeping them up is the momentum. Seeing that they would just buy competition instead of improving their products (or have products they won't abandon) I somehow can believe that.
Wait and see for more I guess.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday June 15 2019, @10:36PM (6 children)
They're obviously laundering drug and corruption money.
The fucking IRS isn't doing its job!
(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....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-l2GgSkA6U [youtube.com]
When life isn't going right, go left.
(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.
(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.
(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.
When life isn't going right, go left.
(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.
(Score: 2) by bradley13 on Sunday June 16 2019, @05:26AM
I really, really want to see these large acquisitions banned. There's too much "buying up the competition". There are two many startups that might have a nice idea, but are much more focused on making themselves "buyable" than they are on making their idea actually work in the real world.
Everyone is somebody else's weirdo.