Re:Salesforce Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire Slack
by texasbigdata on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @04:24AM
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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
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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.)