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Monopolies must be dismantled.

Monopolies must be dismantled.

Posted Sep 29, 2025 11:47 UTC (Mon) by excors (subscriber, #95769)
In reply to: Monopolies must be dismantled. by zdzichu
Parent article: F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree

When it was recently suggested Google might have to sell Chrome (before a judge decided they didn't have to), the AI search company Perplexity offered $34.5B for it. That's a company with $1.5B of funding and an annualised revenue of about $150M, which suggests it is heavily loss-making. Evidently you don't need an actual working business model, you just need to convince a few investors that you have the potential for exponential growth and they'll give you many billions of dollars. (https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/ai-startup...)


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Monopolies must be dismantled.

Posted Sep 29, 2025 12:59 UTC (Mon) by magila (guest, #49627) [Link]

Perplexity's offer was not a serious one, it was just a publicity stunt. They did the same thing bidding on Tiktok when that went up for grabs.


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