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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff(www.cnbc.com)

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Amazon terminates iRobot deal, Roomba maker to lay off 31% of staff::Amazon and iRobot said regulatory concerns made it impossible for the deal to move forward, sending the Roomba makers’ shares plummeting.

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They where founded as irobot in the 90s and it was clearly copying apple.

Are you saying the name iRobot is copying Apple? Because iRobot was founded almost 10 years before the first iMac.

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Till apple didn’t stat the i- naming scheme till imac in 98.

So irobot at the time really was an original name…

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