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Comment by catalogia

6 years ago

Google is a public company, not that it should matter in this context.

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microcolonel  6 years ago

AFAIK “public company” is a misnomer shorthand for “publicly-traded company”, it has nothing to do with "public sector" or similar concepts. Publicly-traded companies are still private corporations.

  • edgyquant  6 years ago

    It does mean there's a regulated level of transparency force on them

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