[HN Gopher] Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for...
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       Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B
        
       Author : JumpCrisscross
       Score  : 12 points
       Date   : 2025-03-17 22:13 UTC (47 minutes ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.bloomberg.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.bloomberg.com)
        
       | redeux wrote:
       | That's $10B more than they offered last year. Not bad if you're
       | holding Wiz shares.
        
       | noleary wrote:
       | This spurred me to look up a list of Google/Alphabet's historical
       | acquisitions.
       | 
       | I remembered that YouTube was M&A, of course, but I'd forgotten
       | all about some other companies that Alphabet bought over the
       | years:
       | 
       | * Motorola
       | 
       | * Nest
       | 
       | * DoubleClick
       | 
       | * FitBit
       | 
       | * Waze
       | 
       | * DeepMind
       | 
       | * Boston Dynamics
       | 
       | Other things I totally forgot existed, like Songza and Picnik,
       | wound up under Alphabet at some point.
       | 
       | For some reason, Alphabet doesn't intuitively feel like a very
       | acquisitive company, but they clearly are very active.
        
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