For consumers? no. Google is pretty happy with all its ad acquisitions, all those companies are dead and there is no competition. Oracle is pretty happy with its patent trolling from its acquisitions. Game companies are pretty happy with their small company buys where they produce garbage sequels and everyone buys it.
to be fair, lack of acquisitions often go stupidly bad too.
digg refused to sell to multiple companies, ultimately turning down a $200m offer, only to do their next funding round only at $175m, and then they promptly collapsed.
groupon refused to sell to google for $6b and a few short years later wasn't worth shit. hell, groupon's collapsed was so bad the shock waves killed livingsocial and daily deal offerings from both google and amazon.
Was there an acquisition in the history of ever that worked out well?
For consumers? no. Google is pretty happy with all its ad acquisitions, all those companies are dead and there is no competition. Oracle is pretty happy with its patent trolling from its acquisitions. Game companies are pretty happy with their small company buys where they produce garbage sequels and everyone buys it.
Conglomerates just keep getting bigger
Enix getting bought by Squaresoft turned out ok.
blizzard didnt ruin candy crush... afaik
to be fair, lack of acquisitions often go stupidly bad too.
digg refused to sell to multiple companies, ultimately turning down a $200m offer, only to do their next funding round only at $175m, and then they promptly collapsed.
groupon refused to sell to google for $6b and a few short years later wasn't worth shit. hell, groupon's collapsed was so bad the shock waves killed livingsocial and daily deal offerings from both google and amazon.
Google got ahold of YouTube for a pretty cheap price.