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by data-ottawa 858 days ago
I'm not surprised they made this deal, but $60M feels low for the cost of killing their 3P APIs.

I can only assume the price is because the license is non-exclusive and they think they can get other big fish to bite.

They can offer higher quality and more timely data than scrapers can, so there is a value proposition there.