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What’s a company that objectively improved after it got “bought out?” (lemmy.world)

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Everyone knows the tale of Brand X getting bought out by some faceless global conglomerate and going to shit, but does the opposite ever happen?

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[-] Capricorny90210@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I was kinda hoping Microsoft would improve Activision.

[-] thelastknowngod@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago

In the development world, Microsoft is actually doing some legitimately good work since the end of the Balmer years. Back then open source was a cancer that needed to be eliminated. Now they have VSCode (maybe the most popular IDE at the moment), develop and release Typescript under an open license, and own github (still a bit of a mixed bag but they're trying).

[-] CountVon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Narrator: They won't.

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[-] negativeyoda@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Jaguars supposedly got much more reliable after being bought by Ford

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[-] frosty99c@midwest.social 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe medical? Like, Bio-Ntech designed the COVID vaccine, Pfizer bought it and could wrap up the phase 3 trials and then scale production?

So, they didn't actually make the product better, but they probably made it viable sooner than if they hadn't bought it?

But that is kind of the normal process for the medical industry at this point..start ups developing new medicine and then shopping it to Big Pharma for buyouts or funding

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[-] aluminium@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

Bethesda buying Id Software.

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