Friday 4 August 2017
Rumors have been floating around today that Google was interested in buying Snapchat back in early 2016 for as much as $30 billion. Business Insider cited sources on the inside of Evan Spiegel’s company who called the potential deal an “open secret.” Google didn’t comment, and Snapchat insists that formal discussions never happened. Obviously the deal didn’t go through — it may have never gone past the metaphorical drawing board, but what if it had? What would Snapchat look like now? I imagine Snapchat would have been folded into Google’s suite of tools. I could seeing it being Google Plus’s answer…
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