Larry Page is excited.
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
Well in Bankers terms it would be lousy 120 Peanuts so why bother :-\ But indeed it would be nice to be that rich :)
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
I think what matters is what Patents Google are retaining. They maybe carry more value than the actual handset division! In real terms, Google could still be in a better place. A) Buy company and all associated patents. B) Retain patents and sell company C) Stop having to spend vast amounts shoring up a cash loss business. Probably recoup their initial outlay quite quickly.
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
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Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
No, this is what happens when an Ad Agency (no, they are not a Software Company) purchases a Hardware Manufacturer. :| I hope that Lenovo will preserve the brand just like they did with the Thinkpad. Now they have one of the best PC and Mobile Hardware Manufacturing units.
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
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See link. [^] Don't you all just love when business people and PR mouthpieces use words like "excited" to refer to write-offs? "Why, I'm so excited that we could ditch this dead weight for a third of the price we paid for it, I can barely hold on to my pants!" If one morning I woke up and realized I took a decision that flopped to the tune of $6 billion, I guess I'd be many things, but excited wouldn't be one of them. Must be nice to be obscenely rich...
"Whereas smaller computer languages have features designed into them, C++ is unusual in having a whole swathe of functionality discovered, like a tract of 19th century Africa." -- Verity Stob http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/05/cplusplus\_cli/
Google's losses are at most ~$2bn from the deal; depending on what they get our of the patents and R&D bits they're keeping. In addition to the ~3bn from selling the phone division to Lenovo they got ~$2bn from the modem division, Motorola had ~$3bn of cash at the time of the acquisition, and lastly the operating losses/expenses they took while restructuring the company netted them about $2bn in tax writeoffs. Those collectively add up to ~10bn out of the ~12bn Google spent. Lastly the rumor mill[^] says that selling Moto's phone division was part of a quid pro quo they made with Samsung to stop the latter from continuing to customize it's way towards a fork and bring its Android implementation back towards native. If true, that achievement itself is probably worth billions down the line.
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