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"Google To Buy Dropbox For An Undisclosed Amount" does not sound far-fetched to me given this announcement. From a strategic viewpoint it makes perfect sense.
by prs 16y ago
"Google To Buy Dropbox For An Undisclosed Amount" does not sound far-fetched to me given this announcement. From a strategic viewpoint it makes perfect sense.
It would provide their new storage service with the necessary intial momentum at the expense of S3.
- whakojacko 16y agoYep. I mentioned that Amazon should buy Dropbox recently for similar reasons. Of course it remains to be seen if the Dropbox people would be interested in selling out.
- niekmaas 16y agofor the right price everyone is willing to sell out. And by looking at the Google acquisition history they don't mind paying big bucks for a great service.
- pchristensen 16y agoThey've taken investment. They are by definition interested in either a) selling or b) going public. While I would happily buy shares in a DropBox IPO, I'm afraid option a is much more likely. EDIT: taken VC investment from Sequoia.
- detst 16y ago37signals took investment and don't seem interesting in a) or b) so I'm not sure that's true. Not everyone has the same goals.
- neilc 16y agoThey've taken investment. They are by definition interested in either a) selling or b) going public. That doesn't follow "by definition" -- although I agree that the former generally implies the latter.
- smiler 16y agoThat would be very interesting if they did it. I hope they could migrate all the data from S3 to GS very easily! Plus it would be a real kick in the teeth for Amazon.
- MikeCapone 16y agoHopefully this would mean a free account with 10+ gigs of storage...