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...no it's not?

The acquired company may have (probably was) already compliant, or it ended up being better to allow them to continue to operate independently.

The only surprising thing here is that you think all Google acquisitions are shaped the same.



Startups tautological focus on product and do the bare minimum on compliance that they can get away with.


Yes, and in order to operate as a b2b SaaS, the "bare minimum" is relatively high, meaning when acquired the value of integration may not be very much.

The owners may have also just demanded to remain independent as part of the acquisition. Or the wind blew a little from the left on a Tuesday in July; there are a million reasons why Qwiklabs might not have fully rebranded or re-integrated such as you would like them to.

It means nothing.




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