NO. Just to put things in perspective, HP make around 22 Billion per quarter, Google makes less than 4 billion. Cisco is around 10 billion per quarter. And thats just players from the IT world I happen to remember data of. Everyone make more money than Google, Google just happens to grow fast and to generates a lot of noise, since not so many people blog about the Steel industry or Logistics(Fedex is around 9 billion, twice more than google).
It already did, and nobody noticed . Google Base . Some people make quite a lot of money off it actually.
Google is not the richest company in the world...there are a lot more companies that have more cash on hand....any deal google does would have to include mostly stock.
Google are NOT one of the richest companies in the world or even close. And Google could not just buy Ebay at the drop of a hat, Ebay are worth to much, far to much for Google just to buy them out, you should be on Digg with the other fanboys
I think its more practical for google to start a new site to compete with ebay head on. They alreay have their own payment processor google checkout and have the money to promote it aggresively.
Google is still one of the largest corporations in the word; there are only 27 publicly traded companies that are larger than Google in the US.
Wiki has them at 139 in the world, big but nowhere near as big as the top guys or to class them as one of the largest imo.
There are literally hundreds of thousands of businesses out there. Being in the top 150 by any measure qualifies a company as one of the largest in the world.
It doesn't matter there is only 150 between them, even though theres a lot more since many private companies earn more. What matters is there is a $340billion difference between them and number 1. You won't hear anyone referring to them as one of the largest companies in the world.
what's the profit on that 22B in revenue? market cap wise, HP is 117B, and google is 146B..... ebay is 46B..... exxon mobile is 453B!
Come on, you're using sales as your measurement. That's a bit absurd. They list WMT at number 1 and XOM at 2. Does this mean WMT is a larger comapany? No. There are many companies that do well in sales but get slaughtered in bottom line. XOM is a larger company than WMT, and this is a known fact. XOM Mkt. Cap. - $450 billion Net Income - $39.5 billion Equity - $114 billion WMT Mkt. Cap. - $200 billion Net Income - $11 billion Equity - $53 billion ($41 billion less tangibles) Now do you realize how useless it is to only look at revenues?
To buy Ebay is to also buy paypal. I don't think so.. Ebay has something going on themselves (they bought some shares to CL as well!!) I must agree.. they probably could start their own similar auction site!
I dont think that Google will buy eBay, but if they do then it will be Interesting too see what happens next
Stupid predictions ... eBay and paypal are one .... Why will Google buy anything like that .... instead I know google ... they'll launch something like eBay than buying it