I’ve seen this happen far too many times.

Acquired/Acqui-hired

Examples: GeoCities, Posterous, Brace.io, Roon, Viddy, Qwiki, Yahoo! Voices, Blip.tv, Giphy

Situation: Company A buys Company B, employees and all. Together, they will continue their incredible journey to make the world a better place. A few months/years/seconds later, Company B is dead and its employees are either laid off or reassigned to Company A projects.

https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/A_Million_Ways_to_Die_on_the_Web

http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/