The Biggest Tech Acquisitions Of All Time
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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.
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.
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.
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.
In the biggest computer hardware acquisition of all-time, HP purchased fledging computer maker Compaq for just under $19 billion.
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.
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.