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Cisco Eyeing Tivo/Nintendo for Buyout?
We've already covered Cisco's push into the home electronics market, but CNet is reporting that they may be planning even bigger purchases to come. The article speculates that Cisco may be planning on purchasing Tivo or Nintendo to add to their growing portfolio of companies. From the article: " Another possible acquisition candidate for Cisco is Nintendo, the No. 3 game console maker in the U.S. A stretch? Not really. Microsoft, which is emerging as a key competitor to Cisco in the home entertainment market, is already in this market with the Xbox 360. Gaming has already proved to be a strong application for broadband, so it makes sense that Cisco would want to own a game device to help drive more traffic on its network. With its popular GameBoy product, Nintendo would also provide Cisco an entree into the mobile-handheld market." Some commentary at GameDailyBiz, which finds it unlikely that Nintendo would sell to Cisco.
Am going to have to get another CCNA (Certified Cicso Nintendo Administrator) certification.
Is it just me, or do you hate it when people say "Is it just me..."?
you know... wrote the thong song.
Cistendo? Nintenco? Nincisco? Nisco? Nintencis?
The story goes that the Nintendo President told Ballmer to "suck my tiny yellow balls". Nintendo says that this is a hoax, the interview with Wired where this story was allegedly told never happened, and they seem to have a good enough sense of humor about it to make me think 1) it really is a hoax and 2) if MS tried to buy Nintendo (assuming they haven't already) the response would practically if not literally be the same.
The enemies of Democracy are
Uhm, yeah. That makes just about as much sense as an asphalt producer buying Ford so that its cars would drive up the demand for pavement.
Cisco want a 100+ year old playing card company anyway?
If you ignore the other uses of a tool, does that make the tool less useful, or you less useful?
The cartridges were *big*. :-o