That's still an acquisition. Companies get acquired for a variety of reasons and not all of them are because the parent company wants it to succeed/improve. T

That's still an acquisition. Companies get acquired for a variety of reasons and not all of them are because the parent company wants it to succeed/improve. The only reason Twitter bought Tweetdeck was that Bill Gross was threatening to make a "twitter rival", and acquiring Tweetdeck would have given him a massive springboard audience and Twitter graph data. Twitter acquired Tweetdeck to throw it into the toilet, basically, so that someone else couldn't benefit from it. Nothing wrong with that.