Thread: Kobo Is Going To Purchase Tolino Back End Assets
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Old 01-03-2017, 11:01 PM   #6
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Originally Posted by johnnyb View Post
Yup your sources are pretty much correct. Telekom owned a share probably equal to the four or five largest partners in the tolino “alliance” and provided web, app and database technologies and oversaw some of the development of the devices (there is yet another company involved, remains to be seen if they are actually part of that deal or not) and those bits of the tolino “ecosystem” have been sold. The book retailers still operate their independent shops all of which are connected via the former Telekom backend. Remains to be seen what will change once Rakuten wants to start saving money by exploring “synergies” between the brands
Can we really say that DT "owned" anything other than the tech used for the platform?

I really don't think you can say they owned a share of Tolino.
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