acquishutdown
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acquishutdown, sometimes spelled acqui-shutdown (or called acquicide), is the act of a company acquiring another company, and then shutting it down, typically taking its site offline as well, or redirecting it to some unrelated page or site of the acquiring company.
References
"acquishutdown"
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9140922
- https://hn.cxhristian.com/comments/9044675/
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9387096
- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8922461
- http://tantek.com/2015/201/b1/indiewebcamp-2014-year-review
"acqui-shutdown"
- https://twitter.com/vgr/status/471739905127636993
- https://twitter.com/hidgw/statuses/304725401090002944
- https://twitter.com/scottew/status/604403235504427008
First apparent use of "acquicide":