Largest Technology Acquisitions of All Time
Key Findings
About This Dataset
Largest Technology Acquisitions of All TimeThe gap between the top three acquisitions and the rest is striking, with Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard and Dell's EMC deal exceeding $67 billion, while the next highest, Broadcom's VMware acquisition, stands at $61 billion. This trend indicates a growing appetite for large-scale mergers in the tech sector, particularly in gaming and cloud computing. The significant investments from tech giants like Microsoft and Dell reflect their strategies to enhance their market positions and diversify their offerings. Notably, acquisitions like Facebook's $22 billion purchase of WhatsApp and Salesforce's $28 billion acquisition of Slack illustrate how companies are also keen on expanding their reach in social media and enterprise communication, respectively.
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Methodology & source
- Data source
- Wikipedia
- Coverage
- 8 entities · 2012–2023 (6 years) · 8 observations
- Measure
- Deal Value (Billion USD)
- Compiled by
- The ANYSTAT team, from the source above
- Values use the measure and unit named on this page. Consult the dataset description and cited source for coverage, definitions and any unit conversions. Displayed values may be rounded for readability.
- Missing years are left empty rather than estimated — no interpolation, no carrying a previous year forward.
- Change is measured between the first and last year in which an entity actually reported a value, so a series that starts late is not penalised for the years before it existed.
- The compound annual rate is (last ÷ first)^(1 ÷ years) − 1, using those same two reported years.
- Entities are ranked highest-first on their value in 2023.
- An entity that reported nothing in the latest year is still listed — it follows the ranked entities in the table rather than being dropped.
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