So, Larry Page wants to own Google and Akamai, he's already got plenty of google stock and a bag of money, and he's decided to buy shares in the other company.
Why should he not be allowed to diversify but you would be? Companies can invest in other companies, the shareholders diversify indirectly. And if you don't agree, you can always sell your google stock.
If MS/Apple/Facebook don't want google to look into their kitchen then they are of course entirely free to set up their own CDNs, and if they leave and you think that this will create negative value you can make a killing by shorting the stock.
I'm not brave enough for that though, and I don't presume to know which way that will go.
>> So, Larry Page wants to own Google and Akamai, he's already got plenty of google stock and a bag of money, and he's decided to buy shares in the other company.
There is a pretty significant difference between Google buying Akamai with it's money and Larry Page buying it with his.
Why should he not be allowed to diversify but you would be? Companies can invest in other companies, the shareholders diversify indirectly. And if you don't agree, you can always sell your google stock.
If MS/Apple/Facebook don't want google to look into their kitchen then they are of course entirely free to set up their own CDNs, and if they leave and you think that this will create negative value you can make a killing by shorting the stock.
I'm not brave enough for that though, and I don't presume to know which way that will go.