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Microsoft has bought Linkedin, Skype, Bungie, Bethesda, Github etc. Is this what tech has become? The titans are buying up everything and tech becomes 5 compani
by blondie9x 6y ago
Microsoft has bought Linkedin, Skype, Bungie, Bethesda, Github etc. Is this what tech has become? The titans are buying up everything and tech becomes 5 companies in the US and 3 or so in China? Feels better to have a wide breath of companies for healthy competition and innovation.
- robjan 6y agoThese companies can't live off VC cash forever. Getting acquired by Google / Microsoft is usually part of the business plan.
- airstrike 6y agoMicrosoft acquiring those companies doesn't really hurt competition. Tech M&A (and particularly the list of examples you pick) is often driven by the desire to acquire talent, technology or capabilities that you don't already have, expanding the scope of the company. If you can integrate the acquired asset with your existing offerings, the theory goes, you will be able to create something greater than the sum of the parts.
- arcanon 6y agoIt is also used by companies to acquire talent they used to have, but lost.
- senectus1 6y agoThey have accumulated a cash war chest that is so big it's a liability... their way to deal with that is to acquire and offset costs and taxes which enables them to get bigger faster. The system is working. but only really for the biggest.
- foepys 6y agoAs it turns out, all those dystopian novels and films set in the future with one or two mega corporations controlling everything were right all along.
- Hitton 6y agoNow they just need to buy arm manufacturer and biochem company and they will be proper cyberpunk zaibatsu.