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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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