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It won’t be easy, but #Yahoo! can still grow with Verizon. AOL is still around after being bought by Verizon in 2015 https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2016-marissa-mayer-interview-issue/
#GoogleGlass was ahead of its time. Most new tech needs a killer app to drive adoption. Forget medical use,etc. If only they had #PokemonGO!
Uber to pour $500m into global mapping project. Is this too little and too late? http://on.ft.com/2adCVn6 via @FT
#Uber quitting #China, merging business with Didi for $35B. What will happen to the partnership with #Lyft?
Will #Nest be first #Alphabet direct subsidiary to fail? A home automation company not trusted to make #GoogleHome. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/07/26/nest-thermostats-offline/
If it wasn’t for all the regulatory issues, #Intel would have made the move on #ARM. Will it end up in Chinese hands like #Supercell?
#Blackberry and #Nokia only have themselves to blame. Refused to move over to #Android quickly and stuck with legacy systems.
#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.
#Apple paid $3B for #Beats, ignoring headset hardware revenue, just #AppleMusic with 15m paid users is bringing in $1.8B each year.
Mark, Get well soon! To Google or anyone else fighting FB, watch him beat you with just one hand! #MarkZuckerberg http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/14/technology/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-live/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom
Well done #Microsoft! $26B for #LinkedIn is a much better deal than Facebook’s defensive $19B deal for Whatsapp.
Winners take all. http://money.cnn.com/2016/06/08/news/economy/top-1-income/index.html?iid=hp-stack-dom