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Re:Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds by beagle3 on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:12AM (#18480442)
Off the top of my head, Facebook is, indeed, the only giant I can think of that has not yet been disrupted; snap is indeed being crushed.

And, wrt the article, it’s not VC that gave Facebook the BI they needed to know it is happening, but rather Onavo - a BI/Spying startup masquerading as a vpn/compression suite, which Facebook purchased and which gave them insight into what their mobile users do on the internet other then facebook

It’s not illegal, but it should have been.

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Re:Unicorns are setting up their own venture capital funds by hobofan on Sunday November 18, 2018 @09:41AM (#18480568)
> Facebook is, indeed, the only giant I can think of that has not yet been disrupted

It's also still the youngest one of them, but yes, for a company in the social networking space they've showed a lot of staying power (they could've already fallen to what could've become out of independent WhatsApp & Instagram). Facebook (and Google) only exist as they do today because an acquisition by Yahoo didn't happen, and I think they've internalized that.

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