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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by eecc on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:13AM (#27482325)
OTOH megacorps rarely "innovate" from within, they're too bureaucratic and management stakes are too high for fast risk-taking. What they usually do is to buy out smaller entities that have somewhat proven the concept and pretend they're geniuses for having found a truffle.
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by j_wtf_all_taken on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:10AM (#27482632)
Also they have no reason to innovate if they got a monopoly. Sometimes they buy that small innovative company and then that nice idea somehow just dies ... maybe cause it'd hurt their business model?
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by imtringued on Saturday June 12, 2021 @08:29AM (#27483988)
Solar city was basically a series of acquisitions. It ended up being bailed out through the Tesla acquisition but once Musk bailed out his own Solar city stock/bonds he gutted the Tesla Energy (Solar City rebrand) branch and basically pretended that it never existed in the first place. The solar roof was just some hyped up product to get the acquisition through.
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Re:Europe is now a corporate also-ran. Can it recover its fo... by j_wtf_all_taken on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:12PM (#27486774)
> The solar roof was just some hyped up product ...

Musk style. Still not sure if all the hype is worth the results.

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