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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by jgreen10 on Friday February 21, 2014 @09:41PM (#7280768)
It seems these types of transactions have nothing to do with potentials profits, but with power over users, or "lying on a bed of weeds and ripping them out before they strangle you".
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Re:America Online to Buy Internet Chat Service for $287 Mill... by justincormack on Saturday February 22, 2014 @05:43AM (#7281693)
And with not paying tax - Microsoft has all this money sitting in Europe that it has to pay tax on if it returns to shareholders, or it can waste it on buying companies instead.
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