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Title: Perplexity Makes Longshot $34.5 Billion Offer for Chrome

Link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/12/1541202/p...

AI startup Perplexity on Tuesday offered to purchase Google's Chrome browser
for $34.5 billion as it works to challenge the tech giant's web-search
dominance. From a report: Perplexity's offer is significantly more than its
own valuation, which is estimated at $18 billion. The company told The Wall
Street Journal that several investors including large venture-capital funds
had agreed to back the transaction in full. Estimates of Chrome's enterprise
value vary widely but recent ones have ranged from $20 billion to $50
billion. U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta is weighing whether to force Google
to sell the browser as a means of weakening Google's stranglehold on web
search. Mehta last year ruled that Google illegally monopolized the search
market and is expected to rule this month on how to restore competition.

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