Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash

Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by mark-r on Monday August 08, 2016 @06:53PM (#12251360)

My own observation is that the bets hardly ever pay off. Microsoft/Nokia is a great example but there are plenty of others. Maybe it's just confirmation bias, but I have trouble thinking of one counter example.

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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by rogerdpack on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:04PM (#12252100)

Adobe did buy AEM "when i was little" (you know, for like 20M or something I have no idea) and it has grown to 10x as much. However that is purchasing a smaller company...kind of like venture capital investment I guess. there seem to be plenty of examples where buying companies hasn't worked out (yahoo+tumblr comes to mind, and that's only recent news).

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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by mark-r on Monday August 08, 2016 @11:23PM (#12252392)

Sorry, not familiar with the acronym AEM. But you do give me an opportunity to modify my statement - it seems that the larger and more strategic the acquisition seems, the more likely it is to fail. And even when it doesn't fail, the synergies never seem to gel - what news of Zappos lately?

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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by matt4077 on Monday August 08, 2016 @10:01PM (#12252088)

NeXt. Paypal. iTunes. Maybe Skype

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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by erichocean on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @05:57PM (#12258004)

NeXT? Are you kidding? Apple has done nothing but _loathe_ buying NeXT and their mercurial CEO. Huge waste of money. /s

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Re:Confirmed: Walmart buys Jet.com for $3B in cash by hayksaakian on Monday August 08, 2016 @07:51PM (#12251613)

adsense

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