Hay otro comentario en este blog en el que hablo del tema de los monopolios y de cómo siempre se ataca a Microsoft y poco a google. Google acaba de adquirir una de las mayores sino la mayor red de publicidad de la web, DoubleClick. En fin….
Asunto: Breaking: Google Spends $3.1 Billion To Acquire DoubleClick
About 20 minutes ago Google announced that they have agreed to acquired DoubleClick for $3.1 billion in cash (nearly double the size of their YouTube Acquisition). Microsoft was reportedly in a bidding war with Google for the company. Google gets access to DoubleClick’s advertising software and, perhaps more importantly, their customers and network.
DoubleClick was founded in 1996. DoubleClick was taken private in 2005 by Hellman & Friedman and JMI Equity for $1.1 billion. The New York Times is reporting that DoubleClicks revenues are about $300 million/year.
10x revenue for a mature company is a…healthy…valuation. At least part of the acquisition price appears to be due to a desire by Google to keep this asset out of Microsoft’s hands.
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