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		halflings on Feb 6, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google dedicates engineering team to accelerate de... Can you give concrete examples of Google doing this? (acquiring a company just to shut it down, not using its technology)

tareqak on Feb 6, 2018 [–]

Bufferbox is close: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BufferBox . However, I did not say "acquiring a company just to shut it down, not using its technology" I said "ran into the ground".

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