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rokhayakebe on March 4, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Source: Microsoft mulled an $8B bid for Slack, wil...

Weren't both of these somewhat successful acquisitions? i.e. Would Skype have been better today without the acquisions, and did WhatsApp suffer product-wise as a result of being part of FB?

wodenokoto on March 4, 2016 [–]

I think Skype suffered from their first acquisition and Microsoft never got it back on to its original trajectory when they bought it.

Skype still has a lot of consumer good will and a strong brand. Amongst my peers online video calling is called Skype notater what platform we use.

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