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Saturday, February 16, 2008

15 Biggest Tech Acquisitions Of The Decade

I know most of you think that $45 billion is a lot to offer for Yahoo, and technically it is, but it’s not the biggest offer we’ve seen in the last decade. Having said that, it will be a while before we see another AOL / Time Warner $180 billion blunder.

So Microsoft buying Yahoo for $44.6 billion is a big deal. No, it's a massive deal. Before Microsoft's share price dropped, it was to be the second-largest tech deal made in the past decade after AOL/Time Warner. Even more impressive? Like the AOL deal, this is a merger you can explain to your mom.

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