Google buys a start-up once every few days, or around one a week, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "In the past, we would buy businesses in lieu of (hiring) engineers." That's why they call it "Google speed."
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Need Engineers? Buy a Company
Google buys a start-up once every few days, or around one a week, says Google CEO Eric Schmidt. "In the past, we would buy businesses in lieu of (hiring) engineers." That's why they call it "Google speed."
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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