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minus-squareTwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·9 months agoOh yeah, I even forgot Google Video used to be a thing.
minus-squarebaltakatei@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·9 months agoSee 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: Nest Labs (home automation) DropCam (home automation) DoubleClick (advertisement) FitBit (wearables) Waze (GPS navigation) Skybox Imaging (satellite mapping) Like.com (shopping) Meebo (social network) GrandCentral (VOIP) Picasa (photographry) Tenor (GIF search) PhotoMath (LLM; became Bard)
Oh yeah, I even forgot Google Video used to be a thing.
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: