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The Roots of Big Tech
- astazangasta 7y agoWhat is this garbage visualization? What is the root of the tree meant to represent? Why does it seem to originate at 15 companies per year? What does the color mean? Why are there multiple strands per year if the X axis is "per year"?
- RandomInteger4 7y agoThe visualization is not a tree. It's the life lines of the individual companies being aquired and the terminus is the company doing the present day acquisitions.
- starbugs 7y agoWith certain mergers I am really baffled as to how these could go through without triggering the anti-merger act. At least in retrospect, it seems as if many of those (especially DoubleClick, Admob, Whatsapp, and Instagram) should not have passed the "may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopoly." criterion of the act. It's also really interesting to see that in the case of FB, the merger of Onavo seems to have been conducted just to gain data for determining a strategy for more significant follow-up mergers (resulting in the acquisition of Whatsapp).
- gumby 7y agoThis article was unreadable as it scrolled single, widely spaced sentences over a changing background. Why is this considered innovative? I know this is a metacomment but its a comment on the fact that I couldn't read the article in order to learn the content!