Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Apple have made 29 acquisitions with more than $1b valuations
Amazon’s acquisition of self-driving car developer – Zoox – for $1.2b is the latest deal this year among the big five tech companies but Microsoft has made the most acquisitions with more than $1b valuation.
According to research firm CB Insights, Microsoft has made the most acquisitions of companies with more than $1b valuations at 11, followed by Google with eight and Facebook and Amazon with four each.
The biggest deal could have been the $35b acquisition of HP by Xerox, but it failed.
Now the biggest deal in history is the acquisition of LinkedIn by Microsoft for $26.2b, followed by WhatsApp by Facebook for $22b and Whole Foods by Amazon for $13.
