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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by CPLX on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:43PM (#24022390)
The most successful global consumer-facing company in world history sells sugar water.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by reaperducer on Saturday August 01, 2020 @01:56PM (#24022510)
If you mean Coca Cola, you're wrong.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by ascar on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:33PM (#24023683)
If anything he would mean Pepsi, which is twice as big as Coca Cola (based on revenue). However, that you immediately think about Coca-Cola speaks for their superior branding.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by learc83 on Saturday August 01, 2020 @05:03PM (#24023889)
Is that based on soft drink revenues or because Pepsi owns dozens of other non soft drink companies?
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by hackstack on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:39PM (#24022824)
Can you support this with a counter example? This statement by itself is a bit of a tease!
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by oblio on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:28PM (#24023638)
If he's basing his comment on the source, he probably means that Apple has a higher market cap.
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Re:TikTok’s Chinese owner offers to forego stake to clinch U... by tmathmeyer on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:48PM (#24025910)
why? coke is easily the most recognized brand on the planet.
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