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#Google or #Alphabet buying #HTC can be good for gaining hardware making capabilities. But fragment #Android market. mashable.com/2017/09/20/goo…
Buying up #Spotify would have been a great way to get everyone to know about #Tencent. But not for profit. pocketnow.com/2017/09/18/spo…
Somehow I feel that #Square is slow in innovating, even #PayPal is doing much better. Just waiting to be bought out? wsj.com/amp/articles/j…
#Facebook paid $16B for #WhatsApp, anyone silly enough to believe they won’t rip value (users and data) out of it. https://blog.whatsapp.com/529/Setting-the-record-straight
#Supercell made $924M profit on $2.3B revenue in 2015, 84.3% sold to #Tencent for $8.6B. #Softbank paid $2.7B for 73% in 2013 and 2015.
Well done #Microsoft! $26B for #LinkedIn is a much better deal than Facebook’s defensive $19B deal for Whatsapp.
Did #Google buy #Nest or Fadell? They wanted a head of hardware with style, but couldn’t get Jony so they got Tony? http://recode.net/2016/03/30/nest-2015-sales-budget/
Which one is a better deal? $16B for Whatsapp or $8.5B for Skype? #Facebook keeps buying big user pools at high premium. Remember Instagram?
#Google didn’t buy #Nest. They wanted and bought #TonyFadell. #Motorola and ex-Darpa-chief could have built any thermostat for $3.2 billion.
Wow. #Snapchat turning down $3B offer from #Facebook. Big gamble. Who else will be brave enough to buy them? Yahoo? Google?
@gigaom iWork launched back in January 2005, Google acquired Writely in June 2006 and recently bought QuickOffice too. Who’s the follower?
Maybe #Google will end up buying #Blackberry for their BES push email technologies. They just don’t like paying for license to #Microsoft.