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Re:Aviate joins Yahoo by mathattack on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:04PM (#7020632)
I think it depends on how much they pay for it. If the price is high, then they want the product. If the price is low, they want the people. Of course even if the price is high, sometimes companies muck it up anyway.
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Re:Aviate joins Yahoo by jmathai on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @06:38PM (#7020791)
If the price is high they want the user base.

I don't think big companies care too much about a product in itself. They care about the team (which created a good product) and/or a userbase.

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Re:Aviate joins Yahoo by mathattack on Thursday January 09, 2014 @03:30PM (#7032979)
Good point - I hadn't considered the userbase. But don't they lose the userbase if they crap on the product after it's been acquired?
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Re:Aviate joins Yahoo by jmathai on Friday January 10, 2014 @12:31PM (#7037930)
Absolutely. I consider that a failed acquisition -- which many companies do. Yahoo!, for example, had done this a lot in the past with their acquisitions.
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