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I wonder if we'll see more 'resurrections' of good ideas that were acquired and killed simply due to bad business rather than bad ideas. Is there a list of comp

I wonder if we'll see more 'resurrections' of good ideas that were acquired and killed simply due to bad business rather than bad ideas. Is there a list of companies/ideas somewhere that went down the acquisition path only to be killed ?

arthurcolle 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Yahoo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Microsoft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Facebook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio... This page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitions_by_Amazon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...) doesn't exist though interestingly enough
- mtmail 12y ago
  Amazon's list isn't long enough (yet) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Acquisitions_and_investments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon.com#Acquisitions_and_in...
oblio 12y ago
From the friendly article: http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/ http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
- anon4 12y ago
  One of the saddest: https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/477095755564318720 https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/477095755564318720