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> B. is the 7th largest internet company in the world By what measure? Just checked and it's not market cap, not revenue, not number of employees, and not earn
by traek 8y ago
> B. is the 7th largest internet company in the world
By what measure? Just checked and it's not market cap, not revenue, not number of employees, and not earnings.
- smueller1234 8y agoI think it's easier to make this kind of statement about how they measure up in terms of public e-commerce companies and market cap. Amazon's bigger. Alibaba's bigger. Who am I missing? I think that would put them at #3 in that particular segment. Fun fact from some years ago: It used to be a head-to-head race for 2nd between Booking and Ebay (when ebay was at their peak and included PayPal).
- skinnymuch 8y agoI got them at #9 or so in market cap for all Internet companies (see sibling comment). In yours and mine, they are pretty high up.
- skinnymuch 8y agoThey are close though in market cap? They should be able to get into top 10. Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tencent, Alibaba would be the huge ones. Then Salesforce, PayPal. Don’t know Alipay and Uber market cap space yet if they are internet companies. I don’t know if you can include companies like Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco as internet companies. If you include Microsoft, still puts Booking into top 10.
- bertil 8y agoI just googled “largest internet companies” and a list popped up with ‘Priceline’ in 7th, so it was a year-old list. I would agree it’s a vague statement but they are much larger and more interesting than most people suspect.