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iRobot is likely to collapse within 12 months. (www.theregister.com)
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Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

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[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 41 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

setting up companies just to be bought by mega corps

iRobot was originally founded all the way back in 1990 and have sold quite a lot of Roomba vacuums, advancing innovation in home automation along the way. I don’t think anyone can ever say that they set up this company for a quick flip corpo pump and dump.

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 points 27 minutes ago

It was originally at up to leech government funding for “weapons research”. I guess I’m old because nobody here seems to remember that.