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strandev on July 31, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they...

12.5+ billion dollars isn't intangible, even for Google.

treeface on July 31, 2013 [–]

He's trying to say that Google paid something tangible for something intangible. It's difficult to estimate the present value of a patent portfolio, ergo it's "intangible".

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