The Biggest Tech Acquisitions Of All Time
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There seems to be a new massive acquisition everyday in the tech industry, which begs the question what re the biggest acquisitions of all time. These massive valuations will have you inspired to finally make that app!
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The Biggest Tech Acquisitions Of All Time
- 1. The Biggest Tech Acquisitions Of All-Time
- 3. In the first few days of the new millennium AOL announced what remains to be the largest acquisition of all time. The $164 billion dollar acquisition was later called one of the worst decisions in corporate history.
- 5. After Comcast swooped up Time Warner, AT&T made moves to be able to compete with a massive acquisition of DirectTV for $48.5 Billion.
- 7. In 2014 we saw some consolidation in digital services. In what many saw as an anti- competitive move in the cable industry, Comcast bought Time Warner for $45 billion. This gives them 75% market share in the cable industry.
- 9. This huge acquisition made headlines when the announcement was made that Facebook would purchase WhatsApp for $19 billion. The purchase was so high because of the rapid growth of WhatsApp but at the time it was $42 per user.
- 11. In the biggest computer hardware acquisition of all- time, HP purchased fledging computer maker Compaq for just under $19 billion.
- 13. Ross Perot’s EDS was purchased by HP in 2008 for $13.9 billion for their IT services.
- 15. In 2005, security software company Symantec purchased Veritas. Veritas had a rolodex of Fortune 500 companies and some complementary services that helped grow the company.
- 17. Google has been trying to enter the hardware space for a while, recently releasing a computer and a phone. But in 2012 Google purchased Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion and didn’t do much with it.
- 19. Oracle completed a hostile takeover of PeopleSoft in 2005 which wound up being accepted by PeopleSoft for $10.3 billion.