By CCN: When you’ve got a target on your back, the best strategy is to give your enemy more arrows. At least, that’s what Google seems to think. Just days after the government launched its antitrust crackdown against the tech titans, Google decided to put more blood in the water. It announced that it is buying fast-growing cloud data analytics company Looker for $2.6 billion. In December, Looker raised money at a $1.6 billion valuation, meaning that Google nearly doubled that just six months later. That said, Looker was planning to IPO, so perhaps Google had to pay up to
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