Google gives Looker a cleaner, faster dashboard with new release
New improvements seek to make Looker dashboards quicker and more useful.
Looker announced the new dashboard features at a virtual event called JOIN@Home. Google acquired Looker in a $2.6 billion deal earlier this year. For Google, this was a great way to get into the fast growing Data Analytics ... Read more
Antitrust authorities investigate acquisition of Looker by Google
The UK antitrust authorities are investigating whether
Google's acquisition of Looker will harm competition with other players. Google
announced its intention to acquire Looker in June.
The acquisition of Looker was the first major acquisition under the leadership of Thomas Kurian, Google Cloud'... Read more
‘Department of Justice is investigating Google’s Looker acquisition’
The first major acquisition of Google Cloud under CEO
Thomas Kurian appears to have gone less than smoothly. U.S. authorities are
said to be investigating the planned acquisition of business intelligence
platform Looker.
Sources who are aware of the investigation report to Bloomberg
that the ant... Read more
Google Cloud takes over for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars Looker
Google has announced to take over business intelligence platform Looker for 2.6 billion U.S. dollars (2.3 billion euros). Looker's services must be added to the Internet giant's Cloud platform. The acquisition is intended to close the gap with the solutions of competitors AWS and Microsoft Azure.
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