I believe it's the novelty of the fact that "some stupid internet thing that everyone uses" was purchased for 1.1 billion that makes it newsworthy. An extremely

I believe it's the novelty of the fact that "some stupid internet thing that everyone uses" was purchased for 1.1 billion that makes it newsworthy. An extremely profitable medical company that very few people come into contact and that makes life saving medicines is purchased for a large amount of money and goes unnoticed and this is somehow surprising? It's the height of pretentiousness to expect that everyone be as interested in the things that you are interested in and to look down on them if they aren't.