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Isn't Waze data incorporated into Google Maps? If that data significantly improves the product and helps them stay the market leader in maps, its value, while h
by danenania 10y ago
Isn't Waze data incorporated into Google Maps? If that data significantly improves the product and helps them stay the market leader in maps, its value, while hard to quantify, has to be pretty huge.
The Nest acquisition seems to be part of a long term robotics strategy, so probably too early to call on that one.
Orkut I'll give you--Google seems to have basically thrown in the towel on social networking.
- blahi 10y agoI think you guys are here just to argue and make excuses for google. I get it that you are fanboys, but please... The GP said that they are like Berkshire Hathaway - basically a conglomerate of profitable companies. This simply isn't true. Acquiring a company to incorporate their assets into yours is just M&A, nothing like BH. Nest is a miserable failure.
- danenania 10y agoI'm definitely not a Google fanboy by any stretch. I agree they aren't really much like Berkshire Hathaway--was only taking issue with your assertion that all those acquisitions were worthless, which seems pretty unfounded to me. I don't know a whole lot about the Nest story--seems the consensus now is that it didn't go well, but if Google retains engineers and IP that help them down the line with their robotics push, it's still probably worth something to them, though perhaps that will wind up being a lot less than they paid in 2014.