Google buys Apple
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- pablo280
2005: Adobe Buys Macromedia for $3.4 Billion
2014: Facebook buys WhatsApp for $19 billion
- dbloc0
Hurry the fuck up with the Google Fiber already!
- georgesIII0
"Google is building 180 satellites to spread internet access worldwide"
How Will We Sustain a More Populated Planet?
Google's plans for satellite-based internet access just got a little more concrete. The Wall Street Journal hears that the search firm is preparing to build 180 "small, high capacity" satellites (not pictured here) that will go into low orbit and provide internet connections to underserved areas.
- i_monk0
Forbes, Cnet, etc, all saying the same thing utopian.
- GeorgesIV0
I know it doesn't mean shit, but soon people will beg google for their sweet fiber and driverless cars,
"Google overtakes Apple to become the most valuable brand in the world"
- formed0
I still don't see Facebook surviving long term, not in its current state. Maybe it can buy its way into continued success, but that's a lot of money.
Google, on the other hand, is diversifying pretty nicely.I don't see how there will be another of either. They will get bought up before they ever make a penny, so you will never really know what the potential was.
Keep buying Google stock :-)
- formed0
Google wants the world, the universe, and they are plotting a course to dominate the future - data control (can you imagine the "privacy" concerns if they started paying people to walk around all day with Glass on, just recording video, to be analyzed and categorized? It'll happen, just like maps). They'll control cars, forget silly blue tooth connected screens, they control the entire car!
There will be an era of mega corporations coming soon. That article detritus posted (http://www.rollingstone.com/pol... is apt, and scary.
Forget Apple, they can make fashion, rake in cash, but have no real power (maybe there's a plan, Jobs certainly leveraged his will by killing Flash, small in the scheme of things, but still felt by many...and the cash Apple keeps by controlling the Apps is not insubstantial). Fashion is fickle, they'll hold on and keep raking in for a while, but not really be more than a (mega) fashion company.
Facebook looks to have more obvious goals than Google, but both want the world, forget money.
- GeorgesIV0
"We've invested over a billion dollars in 15 projects that have the capacity to produce two gigawatts of power around the world, mostly in the U.S., but that's the equivalent of Hoover's Dam worth of power generation," said Rick Needham Google's director of energy and sustainability, standing along Google's solar arrays at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101417698…
[I think I'll keep updating this thread]
- GeorgesIV0
I just remembered this, google gave some money to WWF to test >>> http://worldwildlife.org/stories…
"Remote aerial survey systems, wildlife tagging technology and ranger patrolling guided by analytical software like the Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART) will be integrated to increase the detection and deterrence of poaching in vulnerable sites in Asia and Africa. Our goal is to create an efficient, effective network that can be adopted globally."
you can't make this shit up, fahrenheit 451, here we come
- paradox: burn every book, technology everywhere, yet no books to build or maintain themZOOP
- exador10
damn
- ernexbcn0
Apple has so much money now they can even buy themselves back to become private.
Google might buy them but after lots of year of burning that cash pile, otherwise no.
- monospaced0
Hahahahahaha, yeah right.
- georgesIII0
http://www.theverge.com/2015/1/8…
Google has been helping users buy insurance in Europe since 2012, but a series of clues suggest they may be about to take that business to the US. A new report from an analyst named Ellen Carney at Forrester takes a look at Google Compare, the company's auto insurance hub, and finds some convincing evidence that the program may be coming to America in 2015. A company called Google Compare Auto Insurance Services Inc. is already licensed to do business in more than 25 states, and licensed to sell on behalf of a handful of major insurers like Metlife, Dairyland and Workmen's. Carney also notices that Compare's corporate treasurer is licensed to do business on behalf of a San Francisco-based insurance broker called Cardhound, which could be a sign that Google is getting ready to acquire the company outright. If true, it would give Google a big foothold in a complex and difficult market.
- freedom0
Google is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Mountain View, California. The company operates through four divisions: Energy, Technology Infrastructure, Capital Finance and Consumer and Industrial.
- GeorgesIV0
lol, google medical...
http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/16…
"This isn’t Google Glass in a contact lens, but it may just be Google’s first step in this direction. The company’s Google X lab just teased a smart contact lens on its blog that is meant to help diabetics measure their glucose levels."
- omg0
- GeorgesIV0
logical
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/po…In May 2012, the law school at George Mason University hosted a forum billed as a “vibrant discussion” about Internet search competition. Many of the major players in the field were there — regulators from the Federal Trade Commission, federal and state prosecutors, top congressional staffers.
What the guests had not been told was that the day-long academic conference was in large part the work of Google, which maneuvered behind the scenes with GMU’s Law & Economics Center to put on the event. At the time, the company was under FTC investigation over concerns about the dominance of its famed search engine, a case that threatened Google’s core business.
- sublocked0
Step away from the keyboard