Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 8 months agoI can’t pinpoint exactly when the fall started.
In my opinion, it was when anti-trust laws did not trigger upon Google acquiring YouTube because Google Video couldn’t compete. That meant it was open season on start-ups that otherwise might have grown to kill Google or other big tech companies like Apple, Facebook and Microsoft.
TwilightVulpine@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Oh yeah, I even forgot Google Video used to be a thing.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 8 months ago
See List of mergers and acquisitions by Alphabet for the graveyard list. Sorting by Price helps. Some other notable companies that Google acquired rather than compete with: