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Some other examples... AMD bought ATI and took over the Xbox and Playstation chips.

Nvidia bought 3DFX and cornered the gaming GPU market for a while, then did some dual-GPU linking stuff for a while, then started selling to crypto and ML later on.

Adobe bought Macromedia, killed Flash, focused on Creative Cloud subs, and made a bunch of money while adding a bunch of features (and adding a lot of bloat). They just bought Figma too, will have to see how that turns out.

Tencent bought up a bunch of major and minor Western game dev studios (like Epic/Fortnite, Path of Exile, League of Legends, Funcom, Digital Extremes), injected a ton of funding, but largely let them keep operating as before. Instead of gatcha-fying everything with microtransactions, they spun off separate Asian versions with more grind and more MTX but kept the Western games largely as-is, acting as an invisible puppeteer behind the scenes (but giving the studios a ton of funding). There are similar Chinese takeovers of major Hollywood studios and movie chains.