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Acquisition Talk To Gain Insider Knowledge?

By: Andy Beal
2006-05-09

Reading SiliconBeat's recap of why Google walked away from buying Olive Software, an off-line to XML comversion company...

...I noticed a juicy bit of speculation.

Link: Recap, Olive Software

Is Google turning into a Microsoft? Checking out the goods, and then going back and building it themselves? Or hiring away the better employees? Here's what one person said: "Google learned a LOT about Olive... everything."

If Google ends-up building the technology themselves (or hiring key Olive employees) would you see this as shady or brilliance on Google's part?

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