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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by scarface74 on Saturday August 03, 2019 @09:59AM (#20600436)
And how does that apply to a public tech companies that are still losing money like PagerDuty, Dropbox, Mongo, and ElasticCo?
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Re:Alphabet overtakes Apple to become most cash-rich company by chrischen on Sunday August 04, 2019 @12:24AM (#20604416)
They have the same obligation to shareholders to increase future profits, not to hoard cash, which is what income tax discourages.
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