Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million

Re:Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million by bpeters on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:12AM (#2138614)

Money flows like wine in the valley

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Re:Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million by lachyg on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:21AM (#2138632)

Agreed. I thought this was crazy, must be a talent acquisition.

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Re:Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million by robryan on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:55AM (#2138680)

Yeah, good fit, plenty of sentiment analysis to be done at Google. I guess when you have as much money as they do you can afford this kind of outlay to avoid some of the hit and miss of hiring the positions normally.

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Re:Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million by barranger on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:57AM (#2138684)

I'm not so sure.

They probably make a good amount through both ad revenue and referrals from Fandango, not enough to justify 10 million, but they've said a few times now that Movies are just the first of many verticals that they are looking at.

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Re:Google To Acquire fflick For $10 Million by dotcoma on Tuesday January 25, 2011 @05:54AM (#2138678)

plus, you see the movies your friends, or people you just follow, like, not movies that people who have a similar taste for movies like...

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