&gt; What do you call it when one company acquires the assets and obligations of a portion of another company [0] for a token amount of money?<p>Fishy. Unless I have complete and utter trust in the larger company.<p>Consider this: Google is the only company right now that has substantial web traffic, and can very easily violate Net Neutrality by making say... Youtube Google-fiber specific. Even if Google doesn&#x27;t do this, the fact remains that if they continue to grow in the ISP space, their monetary power and political power will grow exponentially.<p>Or, Google can play the tactics of the previous ISPs by degrading their competitor&#x27;s traffic (such as slower Bing, Yahoo, or DDG performance on their network).<p>Its innately fishy from my point of view. Google gains too much power for a very low monetary investment.