The Google logo is displayed outside the company offices in New York, U.S., June 4, 2019. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
(Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Thursday it would buy Looker, a big data analytics company, for $2.6 billion in cash.
The deal builds on an existing partnership where the two companies share more than 350 customers, including Buzzfeed, Hearst and Yahoo, Google said in a statement.
Reporting by Arjun Panchadar in Bengaluru; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty
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