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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by stackbutterflow on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:36AM (#29151051)
What prevented Oracle, IBM et al to buy out Google, Facebook and Twitter ?

Yahoo refused to buy Google.

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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by ellinokon on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:46AM (#29151156)
Nothing more than complacency, maybe? A mistake I think the newer batch of Big Tech is eager not to make.
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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by pegasus on Monday November 08, 2021 @04:47PM (#29154688)
And just there's the rub: everyone's eager not to be complacent... until they're not - at least historically speaking.
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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by watwut on Monday November 08, 2021 @03:15PM (#29153686)
AFAIK, Zuckerberg was systematically refusing ton sell. He wanted to keep the company.
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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by stackbutterflow on Monday November 08, 2021 @11:42PM (#29157822)
Then new entrepreneurs can also refuse to sell to faangs. Parent asked who is going to stop faangs to buy competitors.
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Re:The benefits of staying off social media by watwut on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @01:17AM (#29158334)
Zuckerberg is outlier.
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