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Microsoft Looking to Purchase DailyMotion

posted by Dopefish on Wednesday February 26 2014, @03:30PM   Printer-friendly
from the don't-forget-the-popcorn dept.

r00t writes:

"It appears that Microsoft has decided it's time they own a video streaming website. Orange, the current owners of the video streaming site, have been quoted as saying 'I think it makes a lot of sense for us, as for Microsoft, to reach an accord that would be above all a partnership.' Yahoo tried to purchase DailyMotion last year, however the French Industry Minister Arnaud Montebourg blocked the deal.

Orange's Chief Executive Stephane Richard said that while no agreement had been made yet, he is 'confident' that the companies could come to some arrangement. Whatever the terms may be, Orange will retain a majority stake in the company."

 
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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by zim on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:17PM

    by zim (1251) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @04:17PM (#7533)
    Get microsoft to buy you outright for a ton of money.

    Whatever deal you do... Microsoft will end up killing your service completely because that's what they're good at.

    So cash out while you can.
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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by etherscythe on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:12PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Wednesday February 26 2014, @06:12PM (#7584)

    I agree that's what happens. But, unless it's a vanity project or moral crusade (in which case why sell out?), this is exactly what the American Dream is made of. Build a business. Get big money. Live the big life. Ride the gravy train into the sunset.

    Not that the blood, sweat, and tears (and lack of social life, etc) of the early years necessarily allow it to be worthwhile to me, personally, but that's what I see of the common capitalist mindset.