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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by dba7dba on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @09:03PM (#18861686)
Haha, that's interesting to hear.

So if Sears invested in Microsoft in 1980, Sears of today could've been like Yahoo, whose investment in Alibaba kept Yahoo afloat a few more years but ultimately continued down the downward spiral?

I gather that the few people at Sears who were aware of the investment invite from Bill Gates may not even be alive, considering it was 39 years ago.

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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by ngcc_hk on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @11:33PM (#18862291)
May be it so negatively influence Microsoft it killed it. It is not a money deposit. You can run down your firm which core to your business you can run down other non-core business. Not many run mixed business work (GM in one stage but not even now).
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Re:Sears has another chance to avoid closing down by Bonooru on Tuesday January 08, 2019 @10:46PM (#18862087)
Yahoo was different though. People would buy Yahoo stock as a proxy for Alibaba since it wasn't publicly traded.
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