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I kind of don't get it. Why do big companies buy other successful companies just to shut it down? Can't they just rebrand it or something? If they can't why eve

• tyrmored 14y ago
  That, and heading off future competition. If Google were planning, for example, on releasing a multi-protocol web chat application of their own in the next few weeks, this would be a well-timed move. Using Meebo's code base to make their own application might have been preferable to rebranding it in this case.