Google died? A strange thing to say about a company with a market capitalisation of 722 billion USD.

Instead of “died”, I’m guessing the poster meant “irrelevant”.

Is that any more true (other than subjectively)?

Because 'market capitalisation' is the only life possible and without it everything is irrelevant ?

Eh a dying whale is still dying. Google missed the cloud and is next in line for the privacy burner (see Facebook) they arent even in the top 3 by market value anymore.

Facebook is dead too? Outside of top 3 by market value = "dead"?

IBM earned $13 billion in operating income over the prior four quarters, making them one of the most profitable companies on earth. They're not even remotely close to being at risk of actually dying.

They're comparable in profit to Oracle, Alibaba and Tencent.

GM and Micron have ridiculously low PE ratios. That also says nothing about whether their businesses are at risk of dying.

Is there a reason you linked ibm here? Please elaborate for the not so smart.

a "dead" company can last a very, very long time.

By measure of "cool kid technological fore-runner" IBM has been dead since the early 80s.

Or perhaps more hilariously:

http://excite.com/

reminder that google wanted to sell to excite.com for $750,000, excite.com said no.

https://techcrunch.com/2010/09/29/google-excite/

Sure, but please note that it is not "smart" related.

All i wanted to say is that dying is not related to market value.

Die as in bankrupt or not profitable is a big stretch for its use as a metaphor. Im not sure how to put this without sounding patronizing and/or stupid and/or explaining to retards but:

There are more things in life besides money or economical viability.

One could argue that afk it is way more easy to use it metaphorically to stereotype those that have money than those who do not.