Bangalore: "There is no better way to kill an enemy than buying it"- The reason which kept Instagram fans fuming over the week. Well, we don’t know what will happen to Instagram in the hands of Facebook’s engineers but history has many examples for powerful startups getting destroyed after they were acquired, like Google’s recent buy and shut down of Oink and HP’s kill of Palm.

But we have also seen some tech companies getting acquired and growing unbelievably with what we call as “a master touch” from the mother company.

Here we list ten tech companies which didn’t get destroyed when they were bought.

1. Google Acquired Youtube: Turned the Struggling Startup into a World Leader

On October 9, 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion from three former PayPal employees- Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim. YouTube pioneered the user uploaded video in the web and was growing so fast which blocked Google Video, a video sharing website. Google could have killed YouTube after the acquisition in favor of its own service. But instead, the company settled all the copyright issues with content providers and promoted the service. You know what YouTube is now!