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Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion (www.theverge.com)
submitted 1 week ago by lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The unsolicited offer is higher than Perplexity’s valuation.

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[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I was being facetious

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

my bad, kinda hard to get it through a text comment.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Don’t feel bad. It looks to me like they made what they thought would be a clever comment but it turned out to be uninformed, and now they are saying “I was just joking.”

[–] gnuplusmatt@reddthat.com 1 points 1 week ago

I wasn't trying to make them feel bad, I thought the absurdity was clear. I will mark it the an /s next time