Comments on: Sunday Morning Laugh: Cisco mulls buying Nokia http://gigaom.com/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 21:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Jesse Kopelman http://gigaom.com/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/#comment-106065 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 18:45:02 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/#comment-106065 This is the most far-fetched idea since AOL buying Time Warner . . . Wait . . .

]]> By: Songzilla_Blogger http://gigaom.com/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/#comment-106064 Mon, 08 Aug 2005 02:55:11 +0000 http://gigaom.wordpress.com/2005/08/07/sunday-morning-laugh-cisco-mulls-buying-nokia/#comment-106064 I have recently heard a lot of outlandish rumors of who Cisco might buy next – none of them has made any business sense to me, and they all would involve an acquisition of huge capital proportions. Like the others, it seems a real stretch to me that Cisco would spend ~$70B on an acquisition.

But why are these rumors floating around? I can think of three possibilities:

(1) Some really major acquisition is in the works, despite what my business sense tells me;

(2) Cisco’s investors would like to see Cisco make a big move and somehow get back to ceiling-less revenue growth, and a rocket flight stock;

(3) Cisco, itself, enjoys such rumors, for they keep the company full view in the mind of the Fortune 500/100 business executives whose mindshare they need for continued sales success (growth).

Does this make me a cynic?

(Or am I a cynic solely for my skepticism about Cisco stock climbing back to $70 per share…)

- EP

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