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Re:Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate developme... by halflings on Monday February 05, 2018 @11:05PM (#16314377)
Can you give concrete examples of Google doing this? (acquiring a company just to shut it down, not using its technology)
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Re:Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate developme... by tareqak on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @04:12PM (#16319754)
Bufferbox is close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox . However, I did not say "acquiring a company just to shut it down, not using its technology" I said "ran into the ground".
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