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Takeovers Roar to Life as Companies Hear Footsteps from Tech Giants

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Re: Takeovers Roar to Life as Companies Hear Footsteps from Tech Giants

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Paywalls suck.

I subscribe to some news sites (WaPo, The Guardian, NYT, The Economist) — they each have a much better hook than WSJ which just dumps you into this weird limbo. I wonder how successful this approach is versus the “5 free articles a month” approach others use or the “polite request” approach of The Gaurdian. Does anyone know?

Re: Takeovers Roar to Life as Companies Hear Footsteps from Tech Giants

#8
The idea that companies are trying to outpace technology firms by acquiring vertical or horizontally related non-technology firms seems silly to me.

If the problem is that you can't compete with a technology company, no aggregation of non-technological companies will fix that problem.

A bit like building stronger castle walls to fight damage from strategic bombing, to construct a bad metaphor.