# Examples of large corporations buying successful companies and continuing the success

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [May 20, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-large-corporations-buying-successful-companies-and-continuing-the-success/658826 "2013-05-20T15:22:52Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 20, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/examples-of-large-corporations-buying-successful-companies-and-continuing-the-success/658826/1 "2013-05-20T15:22:52Z")

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I didn’t want to derail this [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=16306352#post16306352) about Yahoo buying Tumblr, but it got me thinking: are there any good examples of deals like that working out well?

I’m sure there have to be some, but I’m at a loss at the moment.

Feel free to include those examples where the deal went really badly.