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  Failed merge and acquisition cases in the Internet history

Bebo founder sold Bebo with 850 million US dollars in 2008, but later he bought it back with just 1 million US dollars. This news lets us think about those failed merge and acquisition cases in Internet history. Let's summarize some of them here. 1. Bebo Buyer : AOL Acquisition price : 650 million US dollars Sold price : 1 million US dollars Loss: 849 million US dollars In 2008, AOL was still belong to Time Warner. It made a decision to acquire the third largest social networking site Bebo, The...

   Merge and acquisition,Loss,MySpace     2013-07-03 08:37:13

  Google completes acquisition of Waze

Yesterday there was news about Google's acquisition of Waze with 1.3 billion US dollars. Today Google officially released news that they had completed the acquisition of Waze. However the price is not unveiled. Google said on its official blog : The Waze product development team will remain in Israel and operate separately for now. We’re excited about the prospect of enhancing Google Maps with some of the traffic update features provided by Waze and enhancing Waze with Google’s searc...

   Google,Waze,Acquisition     2013-06-11 13:02:42

  3 reasons why Alibaba invests on Sina Weibo

Last night, Alibaba announced acquisition of 18% shares of Sina Weibo with $586 million, according to sources close to the deal, after the completion of this deal, Alibaba will become the second largest shareholder of Sina Weibo and may become the largest shareholder in the future.This deal was supposed to be completed before Chinese Spring Festival, but because Alibaba and Sina had a heated argument about the share holding of Sina Weibo which resulted in substantial delay in the time to complet...

   Alibaba,Sina Weibo     2013-04-29 20:30:05

  Groupon share price grows by 23% because of Google

There have been rumors that Google will acquire Groupon. This rumor makes Groupon's share price soar 23% in three weeks.Groupon's share price closed at $4.69 yesterday, which is Groupon's highest price since October 19. Since November 2011 IPO, Groupon's share price dropped 77%.Telsey Advisory Group analyst Tom Forte said Groupon's market capitalization shrunk to $3.07 billion, It's possible that Google may choose to acquire Groupon at this time. In fact, after there was news that Google was con...

   Groupon, Google, acquisition     2012-12-08 04:02:28

  Frequently used Git commands

Git configuration git config --global user.name "robbin" git config --global user.email "fankai@gmail.com" git config --global color.ui true git config --global alias.co checkout git config --global alias.ci commit git config --global alias.st status git config --global alias.br branch git config --global core.editor "mate -w" # Configure Editor to use textmate git config -l #List all configurations User's git configuration file : ~/.gitconfig Frequently used Git commands Check、add...

   Git,Command     2013-03-11 19:41:06

  Mutli-inheritance bug between python 2.7 and 3.7

When we have run a py3.7 code under py2.x or a py2.x code under 3.x ,if a class do mutli-inheritance from 2 parent and the 2 parents also got inheritance from same parent, the different way to handle inheritance chain between python 2 and 3 will cause some running time bug: Assume we got this sample program inheritTest.py : # Purpose: Test mutli-inheritance different between python2 and 3 # Author: Yuancheng Liu # Created: 2019/05/16 class A: def getVal(self): print("cal...

   PYTHON,PYTHON 3,INHERITANCE     2019-05-16 08:33:52

  Google's acquisition of Quickoffice threatens Microsoft

Windows has over 90% market share in desktop operating systems, even though now other OS such as Mac OS and Linux are saying they are more user friendly, more stable and safer than Windows, Windows still has a weapon MS Office which can defeat all of them. However, with the development of mobile network and cloud computing, Windows is now challenged by different competitors on mobile and cloud areas.  Mobile and cloud are weak sides of Microsoft , but they are strength of Google.Google sudd...

   Google,QuickOffice,Microsoft,MS Office     2012-06-07 11:40:10

  Why doesn't Google copy successful startup ideas?

Google is definitely one of the largest players in Internet world. It owns the most popular search engine, mobile operating system and mapping service. It not only has huge user base but also is extremely rich. It can copy and create any product that is proven to be successful with its talent pool and money. But why doesn't Google copy those successful startup ideas? Based on the current status quo and culture gene of Google, there are several reasons Google doesn't copy startup ideas. First, Go...

   Google,Startup,Copy     2013-09-11 07:03:02

  Simple tutorial on git cherry-pick

It is a common operation to move code from one branch to another branch in a multi-branch git repository. Normally there are two scenarios: Want to move all changes in one branch to another branch, now it's called git merge  Want to move only some change/changes from one branch to another branch, now it's called git cherry-pick Usage The purpose of git cherry-pick is to apply some change from one branch to another branch.  git cherry-pick [commitHash] The above command is to app...

   GIT,GIT CHERRY-PICK,TUTORIAL     2020-05-02 00:02:58

  Will Intel acquire Nvidia?

According to BrightSideofnews, Intel may acquire Nvidia, Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsun Huang will likely serve as Intel's new CEO.It is reported that the two sides have begun to have some negotiations, but details are still unknown. Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini has decided to retire in May next year,  The board of directors said Intel's new CEO may not come from Intel internal, now they are in the process of finding new CEO.Intel CEO Paul Otellini is thought of performing poorly in the...

   Intel,Nvidia,CEO     2012-12-14 13:08:12

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