Better angle: compile a list of companies that have been acquired by goog/msft/fbook and so on. Luckily wikipedia has done the work for you: http://en.wikiped

Better angle: compile a list of companies that have been acquired by goog/msft/fbook and so on. Luckily wikipedia has done the work for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Microsoft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Microso... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle And so on.