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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by parkingrift on Monday January 31, 2022 @02:50PM (#30153269)
I think the word "find" is pretty descriptive. It's hard to find people willing to turn down billions of dollars. This is more like an indictment on M&A in the modern economy. Why compete when you can simply acquire?
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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by abakker on Monday January 31, 2022 @04:12PM (#30154427)
Acquiring is good! Not every company that wants to grow needs to do something original, sometimes funding people doing original things is good. Bad management is not a requirement for acquiring companies, though it is frustratingly common.
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Re:Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal by parkingrift on Tuesday February 01, 2022 @08:02AM (#30161861)
> Not every company that wants to grow needs to do something original

Maybe they should? The world would look quite different if companies were forced to innovate and compete rather than merge and acquire.

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