We can see echoes of this in the current mad dash by the Silicon Valley giants to become conglomerates. Google, Facebook and others also fear that their origina

We can see echoes of this in the current mad dash by the Silicon Valley giants to become conglomerates. Google, Facebook and others also fear that their original mission will become obsolete and so they are buying anything new for billions of dollars to avoid a fate like RadioShack’s. The article lost me on this point. I think Google and Facebook are trying to aggressively expand the reach of their original mission, and not acting out of fear that they will fail like RadioShack has.