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The Blog, The Press, The Media: It's Child's Play: Google now Largest of the Giants
GOOGLE, the ubiquitous internet search engine, this week overtook the giant Time Warner to become the world's biggest media company by stock-market value
Google limped on to New York's Nasdaq market in August last year after being forced to slash its share price in the face of investor apathy.
The shares, initially offered to investors at up to $US135 each, were eventually sold at just $US85 in a float that valued the world's most popular search engine at $US23.1billion ($30 billion)
Time Warner will be watching Google closely
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