Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
by gaadd33 on Saturday December 30, 2017 @10:58PM
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How many companies keep striving at things outside their actual core competency rather than issue dividends? For example, Facebook could have issued dividends rather than purchase Oculus Rift and I'm not sure that the company or the shareholders would have been worse off.
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Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
by danieltillett on Sunday December 31, 2017 @12:15AM
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Facebook is in the business of eyeball monopolization. Any company at any chance of getting hold of a serious number of eyeballs is a threat if not purchased.
Re:The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life
by saas_co_de on Sunday December 31, 2017 @07:53AM
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Interesting thought. It might be better for investors if companies like Facebook just did what they are good at instead of trying to "stay ahead of the curve" and eliminate all future competitors. They are always going to fail at that game eventually anyway, so not trying at all might be better for investors.