{"id":11410,"date":"2017-10-20T09:22:16","date_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/the-death-of-the-startup-is-big-tech-squeezing-out-the-competition\/"},"modified":"2017-10-20T09:22:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-20T09:22:16","slug":"the-death-of-the-startup-is-big-tech-squeezing-out-the-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/the-death-of-the-startup-is-big-tech-squeezing-out-the-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"The death of the startup: is big tech squeezing out the competition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies like Facebook and Amazon clone products and consolidate their power<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been breathing down the neck of the group video-chat app Houseparty for over a year. The app, developed by the San Francisco startup Life On Air, has been a hit with teenagers \u2013 an audience Facebook is desperate to woo. <\/p>\n<p>After months of sniffing around its tiny competitor and even inviting the team to its headquarters last summer, Facebook launched its own group video chat tool within Messenger in December 2016. In February, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.recode.net\/2017\/5\/17\/15655158\/facebook-houseparty-survey-video-chat-apps\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">it invited teens to its headquarters<\/a> to quiz them, in return for $275 Amazon cards, on how and why they used video-chat apps. By July, Facebook was demonstrating a Houseparty clone, Bonfire, to employees and by early September the app launched in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/20\/tech-startups-facebook-amazon-google-apple\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading\u2026<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/oct\/20\/tech-startups-facebook-amazon-google-apple\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Original Article<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"contfix\">\n<div id=\"contdto\">         <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/theguardianlogo-206.gif\"\/> <\/p>\n<h4 id=\"contfixlink\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/international\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young firms struggle to compete as deep-pocketed companies l..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The death of the startup: is big tech squeezing out the competition? 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