Comment on Google workers complain bosses are 'inept' and 'glassy-eyed'
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 10 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 10 months ago
Oh yeah, I even forgot Google Video used to be a thing.
baltakatei@sopuli.xyz 10 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: