Day: 2 July 2011

Google Bid Pi for Nortel Patents and Lost ⇥

“Google was bidding with numbers that were not even numbers,” one of the sources said.

“It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi,” the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion.

“Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.”

via Gruber.

Funny Again ⇥

The Macalope, regarding RIM’s rumoured Apple TV competitor:

Right. Because you’re already doing such a bang-up job competing with Apple on smartphones and tablets that you thought it was a good idea to open the war on a third front. That right there is just the kind of premium decision-making you can only get from two CEOs.