It is always interesting to analyze acquisition data by Big companies. Previously we did Google and Microsoft acquisition data analysis. In this article we take the list of products and companies that Apple has acquired over the years. The data is sourced from wikipedia We thought it would be interesting to show some interesting tricks … Read more
Google has acquired around 184 companies as of October 2015, with its largest acquisition being the purchase of Motorola Mobility, a mobile device manufacturing company, for $12.5 billion. Not all the acquisition figures are available but aggregating all the public known amounts, Google has spent atleast 28 billion USD on acquisitions. With the recent re-structuring, … Read more
Microsoft was established in 1975 and it went public in 1986 [in about 11 years] Microsoft’s first acquisition was in 1987 and it has purchased an average of six companies a year. Microsoft has made eight acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation … Read more