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5 points by nametoremember ↗ HN
I read a blog post about "top ten worst deals in tech" or something to that effect. A comment on the post stated that there seemed to be no successful acquisitions.

It got me thinking. Can you name any successful acquisitions?

Successful: Flickr by Yahoo

Non Successful: Dodgeball, Jaiku by Google Myspace by Newscorp Bebo by AOL

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neuromancer2600
There is a nice thread on Quora that discusses this question: http://www.quora.com/Which-have-been-the-most-successful-acq...

My favorites are probably PayPal (by eBay) and Overture (by Yahoo).

nametoremember
Thanks!
nametoremember
There wasn't much point in voting me down. This thread didn't take off. It had a link to nearly the exact same question which satisfied this threads needs so I said thanks. It didn't hurt anybody.

EDIT: More cowardly downvotes.