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Big tech — Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook — got big and then got bigger with acquisitions of smaller companies. The Washington Post took a comprehensive look at all of the acquisitions over the years:
They all followed a similar pattern. First, they became dominant in their original business, like e-commerce for Amazon and search for Google. Then they grew tentacles, making acquisitions in new sectors to add revenue streams and outflank competitors.
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In this post, we give you a behind-the-scenes view of the application we built for our Editors to create PLOS Collections, and take a look at the user experience work that went into it. On October 21st, PLOS launched our new and improvedPosted by in featured, myalgic encephalomyelitis, Tech
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