“For the right price, and if it can get past regulators, yes, Google wants it,”Ezra Gottheil, an analyst with Technology Business Research, said in a Macworld report. “Google is a machine that turns its users into profits. This is an acquisition that makes more sense for Google than Microsoft.”
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Tisha Guerrero contributed to this article.