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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by s3r3nity on Tuesday December 01, 2020 @05:53PM (#25271130)
Given some of their moves with Google Workspace tying together Gmail / Meet / Chat, I doubt they could get away with this without significant antitrust issues.

They still haven’t fully closed on their Fitbit acquisition, so I’d expect they’d have a tough hill to climb for a Discord or a Slack.

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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by texasbigdata on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:24AM (#25274782)
Would antitrust cover....a hypothetical unlimited budget de novo build? Sort of acquihiring without going after Discord employees.
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Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack by s3r3nity on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @02:45PM (#25280628)
It would if they build a completely free product to price out competitors. Then there's an easy case to be made that they're leveraging market power / dominance in one market to undercut rivals in another (e.g. running this new service with negative profits to gain market share before eventually boosting prices later.)
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