We have this bad track record with animals. Most of evolution has much less to do with macro sized competition. Most is at bacteria level, like information processing. You get a very fluid self-awareness. Something very smart could exist for awhile, then break down.
Bacteria are all the same size.
Corporate takeovers are not like getting killed. A re-direction of goals perhaps. A lot less like the bloodier images of natural selection. When we talk about evolution, metazoan, we may miss the point. Biological life was not the first, could have been crystalline clays.