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To: Swordmaker
An IBMer I work with said that IBM is buying Google for 200 billion.
Will check stock movement to see if there is anything to it.
3 posted on 04/01/2016 1:06:07 AM PDT by AU72
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To: AU72
An IBMer I work with said that IBM is buying Google for 200 billion. Will check stock movement to see if there is anything to it.

$200 billion wouldn't touch it. Alphabet/Google's Market cap as off close of market today was $512 billion.

Apple's market cap is $604 billion.

IBM's market cap is only $145 billion. . . Google is worth three and one-half IBMs. Apple could buy IBM out right and have $75 billion left over from their cash on hand...

4 posted on 04/01/2016 1:21:09 AM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue..)
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To: AU72
An IBMer I work with said that IBM is buying Google for 200 billion.

That's no big deal.

Back in 1994, when Windoze users were downloading Trumpet Winsock to get online to this thing called the World-Wide Web, Microsoft bought the Church of Rome.

5 posted on 04/01/2016 1:44:08 AM PDT by cynwoody
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To: AU72

Google could probably float a loan and buy IBM actually, not the other way around.


7 posted on 04/01/2016 2:08:20 AM PDT by Bullish (Face it, insanity is just not presidential.)
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