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Re:The death of corporate research labs by badrabbit on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:29AM (#23257592)
Under Google not so much. But you just need liquidity for R&D, the point being you will develop new concepts that will improve profits. Netflix,hulu,amazon prime all came after youtube,perhaps good R&D without Alaphapet's shackles would have let them compete in those markets and more (video conferencing for example like zoom).
Re:The death of corporate research labs by sumedh on Thursday May 21, 2020 @08:36AM (#23257644)
Netflix had a profitable dvd business, Hulu has the backing of major studios, Prime has Amazon.

I dont think Youtube would have survived without Google.