Tom Foremski ponders BT's buyout of Ribbit and calls it an example of 'blackmail innovation': where startups threaten to disrupt an industry but end up taking their cash. Fair argument - too bad he makes it not on his own proudly disruptive website, but took ZDNet's cash in order to publish it on their pages.
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