How much cash has Amazon Books got?

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Fri Mar 19 07:13:09 PST 1999


On Thursday, March 18, 1999 at 21:07:34 (-0500) W. Kiernan writes:
>...
>Amazon isn't the only one, this is actually a general question; why,
>say, doesn't, Yahoo buy Gateway 2000?

Gateway would be the barrier here: they are earning real money. They would be taking a big risk accepting funny money (grossly overvalued Yahoo stock) in return for their company, which would be what Yahoo would use to buy them.

Bill



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