Jonathan Kanter on Perplexity's $34.5 billion bid for Google's Chrome browser

The Department of Justice, as you mentioned, has requested uh the court require uh Google to devest Chrome. This is a clever move by Perplexity because one of the things that Google is arguing in court is that one, Chrome has no value outside of Google, and two, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to devest the asset. Now, here you have perplexity with 34 billion reasons why uh it has value outside of Google.uh and um if they're willing to buy for $34 billion then um clearly it's an asset that they ca ...