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Google buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTok
- hunglee2 4y agoGoogle is not going to take on anything - can't remember the last acquisition they made they didn't entirely abandon and leave to wither on the vine. It's got to be YouTube hasn't it?
- bitxbitxbitcoin 4y agoYouTube was in 2006. Since then, Google has bought Motorola Mobility, Waze, and DeepMind. That’s three that are still chugging along arguably.
- ushakov 4y agoMotorola Mobility: > In May 2012 Google acquired Motorola Mobility for US$12.5 billion > Google's ownership of the company was short lived. In January 2014, Google announced that it would sell Motorola Mobility to Lenovo for $2.91 billion Waze: > In June 2013, Waze was acquired by Google for $1.3 billion > In 2020, the FTC announced that it would be re-examining Google's 2013 acquisition of Waze Source: Wikipedia
- ushakov 4y agoHow are they gonna make money? Can somebody explain me the value of this product? At the moment, i see none