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Time (sub required) on the many small deals Apple, Twitter, Yahoo! and Walmart (in graph) have done
"In most cases, the acquirers don't care about the products they've bought. (To prove it, they often instantly shut them down, as Yahoo did with Rockmelt's smartphone browser in August.) What they covet is the expertise of the acquisition's founders and engineers and sometimes the technology they've created or the data they've collected."
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