Tech acquisitions happen all the time but what are the all time largest deals? Everything from Time Warner to Sun Microsystems.
Time Warner, acquired by AOL for $106 Billion
WhatsApp (cross platform mobile messaging), acquired by Facebook for $19 Billion
Compaq acquired by HP for $18.6 Billion
Electronic Data Systems Corp (founded in 1962 by H. Ross Perot is an information technology equipment and services company) acquired by HP for $13.9 Billion
Veritas (an international software company specializing in storage management software), acquired by Symantec for $13.5 Billion
Motorola Mobility (Motorola’s consumer oriented product lines) acquired by Google for $12.5 Billion
PeopleSoft (human resource management systems), acquired by Oracle for $10.3 Billion
Autonomy (knowledge management software) acquired by HP for $10.24 Billion
Skype acquired by Microsoft for $8.5 Billion
Sun Microsystems (invented Java platform and is a data storage company) acquired by Oracle for $7.4 Billion
Sources: tech.co, huffington post, wikipedia