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		fractalsea on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google splits into GOOG and GOOGL today YT was bought for $1.65bn in shares which is an order of magnitude less.

declan on April 3, 2014 [–]

Exactly. And I recall that some of that was held back in case Viacom won the copyright lawsuit.

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