6a. Buy a company to get into a new line of business (Comcast/NBC, Yammer/LinkedIn/GitHub), a transformational divestment followed by rebirth (IBM, Nokia) 6b.

6a. Buy a company to get into a new line of business (Comcast/NBC, Yammer/LinkedIn/GitHub), a transformational divestment followed by rebirth (IBM, Nokia) 6b. Buy up and coming evolutionary competitors before your way is obsoleted by their way. (Red Hat, Instagram, WhatsApp, all the SD-WAN companies getting swallowed.) 6c. Buy competitor and dismantle it to consolidate and reduce competition.