{"id":10638,"date":"2007-01-23T15:14:20","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T12:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/23\/things-to-do-with-a-billion-dollars\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T15:14:20","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T12:14:20","slug":"things-to-do-with-a-billion-dollars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/01\/23\/things-to-do-with-a-billion-dollars\/","title":{"rendered":"Things to do with a billion dollars"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just loved the quote:<\/p>\n

for a billion dollars you could build about 10 decently sized cities or, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so inclined, buy all the Viagra in the world and still have enough money left over to buy 50,000 or so Russian brides<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The picture is so real in my head… <\/p>\n

via Google Blogoscoped<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Just loved the quote: for a billion dollars you could build about 10 decently sized cities or, if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so inclined, buy all the Viagra in the world and still have enough money left over to buy 50,000 or so Russian brides The picture is so real in my head… via Google Blogoscoped.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23936,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/04\/21\/why-did-google-buy-motorola\/","url_meta":{"origin":10638,"position":0},"title":"Why did Google buy Motorola?","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 21, 2015","format":"link","excerpt":"Quora runs the question: \u00a0\u00a0Why did Google buy Motorola for $12.5 billion and sell it off for $2.91 billion?\u00a0Apparently, not only for patents. \u00a0Interesting!","rel":"","context":"In "All"","block_context":{"text":"All","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/category\/general\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24833,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/12\/dell-to-by-emc-for-67-billion\/","url_meta":{"origin":10638,"position":1},"title":"Dell to by EMC for $67 billion","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"October 12, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Bloomberg reports on a largest technology acquisition ever (excluding telephony): Dell Inc. agreed to buy EMC Corp.\u00a0for about $67 billion in the largest technology acquisition ever, creating a corporate-computing giant that will use a wider product lineup to woo customers as demand slows and competition stiffens. 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