Peter Kafka

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Google’s 2012 M&A Tab: Motorola Plus $458 Million and Counting

Did Google buy your start-up this year? If so, they spent an average of $19 million on it: The search giant says it spent $458 million on 24 acquisitions through June 30 of this year. That’s in addition, of course, to the $12.5 billion it spent on Motorola Mobility.


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The best and brightest are usually put to work on optimisation. … They will then go forward and solve the inefficiencies, and that’s where 99% of most energy is spent on. But, at some point you run out of room to improve things, and that’s when you have to step aside and ask, can we make it different?

— Horace Dediu, in a podcast interview with William Channer