The most unsuccessful decisions taken in the history of the IT-industry

MySpace h5> Site mySpace was the fifth most visited in the US in 2005. Then the company was able to buy Facebook for $ 75 million, but the proposal was rejected by the founder of MySpace Krisom Devulfom .

Because it was the most popular social network at that time, the media mogul Rupert Murdoch decided to purchase it. He immediately began to pursue an aggressive policy of monetization, hung site advertising, resulting in decreased popularity of the service, and users switched to Facebook.

Hewlett Packard h5> Hewlett Packard Company was entitled to everything that Steve Wozniak invented, including a computer Apple I, the production of which Wozniak himself offered them to establish several times. However, they just "let go" mad inventor with his "toy computer».

IBM h5> IBM has the right to manufacture the chip Pentium, but got rid of them in order to produce more than 486 processors.

Apple h5> The company sold a license to fly an interface for Microsoft Windows 1.0, but refused to sell the license for MacOS, that offered them himself, Bill Gates. MacOS could become standard OSes for PCs - but Apple executives decided that their OSes and so all will win, so it makes no sense to license.

Silicon Video Corporation h5> The company with the same name, later renamed Candescent Technologies, trying to make flat-panel displays on the technology of FED (field emission display). They attracted hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in its development "ThinCRT", but the technology and failed to bring to production. After 13 years of research, the company closed and sold its assets Canon. So far, there is no display on the basis of FED.

Silicon Graphics h5> One of the coolest companies 90s quarreled with its founder James Clark. He retired from the company, met Mark Andreesen, and together they created Netscape - a company that not only made the first popular browser, but also served as a catalyst Internet boom of the early 2000s, and earned him about $ 2 billion.

Yahoo h5> In 1998, Google founders turned to Yahoo in search of their investment in the new technology of Internet search, but did not receive support. In 2000, they still saw the potential in Google, and began to use its search engine on your site than have contributed to the promotion of Google. In 2002, Google could buy for $ 3 billion, but the deal fell through .

Netscape h5> The browser has long been the de facto standard, and everyone, run it first enters the home page of the company. But the company did not use its potential, with nearly 100% of the Internet audience - first page had only little interest company news, and then she gave her at the mercy of the then small company Yahoo.

Intel h5> The company refused to deal with Apple for the production of processors for the iPhone, as it underestimated the amount anticipated to be produced and agreed that this не bring them profit . CEO explains: "We must remember that this was before they saw the iPhone and no one knew what to expect from him. Apple needed a certain chip, they had their own neobsuzhdaemaya price, and it was lower than our target value. As a result, it was found that the cost was predicted incorrectly, and production volumes were a couple of orders of magnitude higher than expected ».

Groupon h5> Andrew Mason declined the offer to sell its service by Google for $ 6 billion. Instead, he decided to go to the stock exchange, raised by selling shares of $ 700 million. For some time the company was valued at $ 12 billion, but then the company has not fulfilled its promises to its shareholders and its price went down quickly.

Atari h5> The company's founder Nolan Bushnell, who was one of the first bosses of Steve Jobs, could hold the third part of Apple, investing in early just $ 50,000. The present value of the company is estimated at more than $ 400 billion.

Xerox h5> In the research laboratory Xerox PARC invented Ethernet, GUI, editors WYSIWYG, object-oriented programming and laser printing - all that we still use today. But for some reason other than printers, copiers and toner so did not use.

Excite h5> company in 1995 launched a web portal, Google founders rejected an offer to purchase their search engine in 1999 for $ 1 million, and even fired his employee , make investments, which bargained with Brin and Page at $ 750,000.

Kodak h5> The first digital camera was set up in the bowels of the company in 1975. But out of fear that it will displace them-film business, they do not engage in this technology until the mid-90s. When they realized their mistake, it was too late .

Source: geektimes.ru/post/241956/