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When a company acquires another and then shuts it down, the reasoning usually has something to do with intellectual properties or acqui-hiring the employees.
by samweinberg 13y ago
When a company acquires another and then shuts it down, the reasoning usually has something to do with intellectual properties or acqui-hiring the employees.
- chiph 13y agoOr buying the customer base, if they think the customers can be moved to their platform.
- redthrowaway 13y agoExcept in this case, they laid everyone off. Also, Zynga doesn't seem all that interested in acquiring IP. I imagine this was just a fuck up on their part.
- rmc 13y agoThey're keeping Draw Something
- meowface 13y agoIf they are, that really seems like a nasty move. Buy a company, then shut down all their products and services, fire all of them, then keep all of their IP and ensure they can't use it again? I suppose it's not exactly theft, since they got paid something up front, but it's still unfortunate.
- workbench 13y agoThey didn't expect Draw Something to drop off so much faster than their usual games. Probably didn't understand that Draw Something isn't even a game when you think about it, so didn't really have a competitive angle and became tiresome quickly.