How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus New Apple Rumors

Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by jw84 on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @06:57PM (#1836495)

Nice of Spotify to tip off TC to clinch this buyout.

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by jacquesm on Tuesday October 26, 2010 @08:00PM (#1836676)

I doubt anybody at spotify is happy with this and it could very easily backfire as a strategy.

Odds would have it this is not an 'authorized' leak. (we used to call that a press-release).

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by philwelch on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @12:06AM (#1837206)

I never thought leaks clinched deals. I always thought leaks queered deals.

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by mahmud on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @10:20PM (#1841424)

Wow! didn't know "queer" was a verb.

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Re:How Spotify Almost Sold To Google For $1 Billion, Plus Ne... by philwelch on Wednesday October 27, 2010 @11:17PM (#1841550)

"To queer the deal" is one of my favorite idioms. It's not really a verb outside of that.

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