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For every success story (Mojang) there are 3-4 horror stories (Fast, Yammer, Nokia, aQuantive, etc.)
by gigel82 4y ago
For every success story (Mojang) there are 3-4 horror stories (Fast, Yammer, Nokia, aQuantive, etc.)
- i_love_cookies 4y agoI do feel like some of those companies were doomed before microsoft was involved at least
- basch 4y agoIs aQuantive still around? Atlas was sold to Facebook in 2013, and re-released in 2014. https://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/23/facebook-to-introduce-new-advertising-platform-wsj.html https://www.cnbc.com/2014/09/23/facebook-to-introduce-new-ad...
- sundaeofshock 4y agoNot as a entity. MS broke it up and sold off all the parts. Razorfish is still sort of around: https://www.razorfish.com/ https://www.razorfish.com/
- umeshunni 4y agoI think Razorfish was spun out before the acquisition.
- asdfasxcdf 4y agoSkype
- pjmlp 4y agoAs ex-Nokia, on that case they did it to themselves. First for the kind of management we had regarding Symbian vs Linux, angering the Symbian developer community, always changing the development stack, deciding to bring a Microsoft person which decided to go all in on Windows Phone, when the R&D culture was pretty much anti-MS during those days (Symbian/Linux), and having a contract clause for a nice bonus if Elop managed to sell the company.