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Re:Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete Wi... by drusenko on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:11PM (#6492485)
Android, Google Analytics, etc etc etc
Re:Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete Wi... by Samuel_Michon on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:34PM (#6492609)
I’m not sure whether those are good examples. Android Inc wasn’t much of a company when they were bought by Google and the initial Google Analytics offering was very different from the service they bought (Urchin). Meanwhile, Google has killed over a hundred services in the last couple of years.

Apple has bought several companies that had shipping products and just like Google, Apple didn’t cancel those. Examples are FileMaker, Logic, and Final Cut Pro. After it bought PowerSchools, Shake and Astarte, it kept their products on for many years. Furthermore, it is often said that Apple’s acquisition of NeXT was a reverse takeover.

Re:Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete Wi... by badclient on Thursday October 03, 2013 @06:58PM (#6492725)
I can assure you any company anyone acquires will look very different 5 years from acquisition if its still alive.
Re:Cue Acquired For Over $40M, Likely By Apple To Compete Wi... by Samuel_Michon on Friday October 04, 2013 @12:05AM (#6493656)
Also, any startup not acquired should look very different 5 years from conception.