Technology

Crunchyroll's (then Funimation) acquisition of Animelab is what led me to stop paying to stream anime.

Lower quality videos. Harder to navigate. Distracting watermarks on the side of the screen. Blocking VPNs. Ads even though you already pay them.

I hate that there is so little effort put into preventing monopolies from buying out the competition

Idk if it's appropriate to mention this:
Opera --> acquired by kunlun --> marketing lies and became a trash browser

Just went down the rabbit-hole of the acquisition of MySQL as I was bored. What a fascinating story.

Dude who originally made it in 1995, Michael Widenius, named it after his daughter My, hence MySQL. He sold it to Sun for $1 billion in 2008. He then turned around, forked the software, and produced MariaDB (I always wondered why it was named that) starting a new organization around it in 2009. It's functionally nearly identical, often able to be used as a drop in replacement, assuming you aren't using new features developed after the fork. Last month, he sold it again, the same fucking base software, to some private equity firm (yay...). What a guy.

Unfortunately, he's run out of daughters to name software after and already used his son's name for something else, so we might be at the end of open-source, community-driven DB solutions from Michael. To be fair, relying on any projects from him to be free and open indefinitely is apparently not a good idea anyway.

MySpace -> acquired by News Corporation -> insta death

Also, Twitter was always crap.

Well yes. That's the point. Cut costs (slash staff, quality, etc) then make as much money as you can as fast as you can off the goodwill and fan loyalty built up by the original product/service.

Vulture Capital doing what it does. Make everything shittier AND more expensive.

Holden being acquired by General Motors was okay for a while. Then it died, because they couldn't be stuffed with the Australian market, or the local car industry at the time (and in doing so, likely kicked off its demise).

I was just thinking today that any time i hear about a new company ill ask “are they publicly traded or planning to be?” I feel like thatll save a lot of time

Blogger is no longer supported and is suffering greatly people are leaving it in droves. You might as well call it dead

Roster Teeth and Wizards of the Coast. Those turned out just cycling great.

Ngl seeing nasi goreng threw me for a loop

I'd be curious to see a citation because everything I can find suggests it's still obstruction of correspondence and a federal offense as they were not the intended recipient

Plus, OP delivered a text version.

Ah yes, technology videos are really bad. Especially that Technology Connections guy, he's the absolute worst.

And don't even get me started on technology video reviews, tutorials, guides, educational materials and tech news. I only consume technology information in newspaper form. This new video thing just won't catch on.

in my opinion they don't contribute to the quality here.

As respectfully as possible: huh?

We're on a link aggregation site, for posting links to things off-site and discuss them in relevant communities

If something is a video or article it makes no difference on its quality or relevance to the community at hand, no?

Is there a better service now that they also bought funimation?

You can take the company out of the pirate ship, but you can't take the pirate ship out of the company

If an Australian company has a shop or office in the US, what happens in that shop is beholden to US law. If a Japanese owned company commits US crimes while in the US, they are committing crimes.

Had been. But we’re in a post-accountability era for corporations so most likely nothing will happen.

As far as I remember they started as a pirating site and only later started to acquire more and more streaming licenses. By all means they shouldn't even be in business today.