Seems to me that they either give money away via grants to organizations like schools or collaborations or buy indto something that is on shaky grounds and eventually lose their shirts on these investments.
I can't recall names of investments in companies that went south, but I am sure there were several.
Maybe you can come up with names of their axquisitions and whether they are winners or losers to our bottom line.
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