{"id":37037,"date":"2019-07-13T11:29:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sciencebusiness.technewslit.com\/?p=37037"},"modified":"2019-07-13T11:29:10","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T15:29:10","slug":"infographic-top-tech-acquisition-timeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewslit.com\/sciencebusiness\/?p=37037","title":{"rendered":"Infographic – Top Tech Acquisition Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"
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13 July 2019. The world’s five leading technology enterprises are acquiring more companies and with more money in recent years than before. The companies, known collectively as FAMGA — Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Apple — continue to add new properties to their portfolios, with the size of the purchase prices at the time documented in this weekend’s infographic, compiled by our friends at CB Insights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The chart shows acquisitions of $1 billion or more in the past 20 years. All told, FAMGA made 25 of these major purchases, with Microsoft accounting for 10 of that total. Microsoft’s purchase of LinkedIn at $26.2 billion in 2016 is the largest acquisition, followed by Facebook’s take-over of WhatsApp for $22 billion in 2014.<\/p>\n

Microsoft also started off the acquisition parade in 1999 with its purchase of Visio for 1.4 billion. The latest $1 billion+ take-over is Google’s acquisition of Looker, an analytics enterprise, for $2.6 billion. Of the five tech companies, Apple so far made the fewest of these purchases, only Beats Electronics in 2014 for $3 billion.<\/p>\n

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