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Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by omoikane »

redbell wrote: post #16

Wiz joins Waze & Waymo.. there's something suspicious with the letter W here :)

There aren't that many Alphabet acquisitions[1] that start with "W", compared to all the companies that start with "A":

      1 2
      1 6
      1 @
     28 A
     15 B
      8 C
     18 D
      6 E
     10 F
     10 G
      4 H
      9 I
      5 J
      5 K
      8 L
     14 M
      8 N
     10 O
     22 P
      4 Q
     13 R
     27 S
     12 T
      3 U
      5 V
      9 W
      1 Y
      8 Z
Normalizing these counts with respect to English character frequencies that appear in text[2], the top three unexpected company initials appear to be "Q", "J", and "P".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_frequency

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by Borg3 »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #78
tipiirai wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thiel is an idiot

Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.

Connections... It was always like this..

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by toomuchtodo »

debarshri wrote: post #8

Google SecOps (Chronicle) is becoming quite popular among the cybersec world. I think eventually there should be an integration play. It is also a way to create wedge into AWS and Azure customers.

These offerings are to pull customers to GCP. That is what Google is paying for because they couldn't get the traction organically.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47337644

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by lkjdsklf »

ToucanLoucan wrote: post #78
tipiirai wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thiel is an idiot

Maybe we should examine as an industry why so many mediocre men get elevated to positions of incredible power and run great businesses into the ground.

The same way mediocre men have been elevated for thousands of years.

A combination of being in the right place at the right time and connections to people with money

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by shilgapira »

breppp wrote: post #62
pbiggar wrote: post #32

As I mentioned at the time, the Wiz acquisition is the largest transfer of Israeli intelligence operatives into Big Tech in history. Here's my full thread on it: https://x.com/paulbiggar/status/1902329587050148068

lol Let me tell you something even more worrying, Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta and Microsoft already have larger engineering centers in Israel than most of Europe. And over 90% of their workers served in the IDF! And many more in Israeli Intelligence! and they're also mostly Jewish! Spooky stuff, our ads will never be safe now

Oy vey!

You've got to love how spewing such casual bigotry against random people doesn't ring any alarm bells for people like this Paul person. I'm sure he considers himself a "progressive" lol.

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by myth_drannon »

Interesting fact regarding the sale. Because the founders are about to receive $2.4B US, Israeli tax authorities got involved, and the tax on the sale as an exception will be paid in US dollars directly without converting to shekels due to concerns it might crash the US/NIS exchange rate (with $US already historically low).

Re: Google closes deal to acquire Wiz

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Post by ragall »

breppp wrote: post #60
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you think Google is capable of making a singular coherent decision on a topic like this, you're dreaming. There's likely multiple competing visions. That said: the goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play. They are culturally incapable of merging other people's tech into their own stack…

> goal with Google M&A remains the same as always. Take competition off the board. I don't know this company or how they compete with Google, but 80% chance that's the play I don't think that's true here (what is the competing google product exactly?) or generally in cloud acquisitions, that generally buy into their platform missing features

The competing Google features are not a distinct product with its own name, but rather many separate features one can enable, like container image scanning. Collectively, it doesn't do all that Wiz offers, but it's still there.
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