[tyrelb]

Most acquisitions that google goes through they shut-down, unless it's really core (like Docs). Songza will be shut down, but the team will join Play or whatever...

[eru]

Like Docs, Maps, blogger and youtube?

[lmm]

Docs was google's only docs service, and subsequent acquisitions have been squashed into it (e.g. etherpad). Maps is google's only maps service. Blogger was more-or-less google's only blog service until recently, and I wouldn't count on it surviving much longer in the age of google+. Youtube happened the other way around, in that google killed google video and merged it into youtube.

Is play music more established than songza? I think yes, and google is unlikely to maintain both of them in parallel.

[giarc]

I see this as similar to Waze acquisition. Waze continues to operate to this day.

[jcromartie]

Waze is an important data source for traffic in Google Maps. They didn't want to lose that data by killing the Waze app.