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Originally Posted by Cyberbob
I've been thinking the same. What comes to mind are instances where the value was destroyed post acquisition but not necessarily as a direct result of the acquisition. Yahoo buying Geocities, Microsoft buying Motorola, Whoever bought Lycos Search just before Google became a thing.
In the gaming scene, EA buying Westwood and Activision buying Blizzard come to mind.
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Lots of tech companies have been bought and were then allowed to wither, or were starved. Yahoo/Tumblr, News/Myspace come to mind as well as those you mention. But what's happening now seems to be the new owner trying to deliberately destroy the purchased company. IDGI.