In Latin America, outside of Brazil, a few IPOs from Argentina, and some copycat models from the US,
the biggest tech acquisitions have been in the $ 20M - $ 50M range — far less than their US, European, or Asian counterparts.
The deal would have been
the biggest tech acquisition ever, but Broadcom is not backing down from its plan to buy the chipmaker.
Not exact matches
As
big a deal as Salesforce's planned
acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for
tech mergers and
acquisitions.
The prior year, there were eight
big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest
tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion
acquisition of EMC.
One encouraging sign for both Dropbox and its investors, though, is that some of the
biggest tech companies were all active acquirers before going public: Twitter and Facebook both had 31
acquisitions before their IPOs, while Zynga and Groupon each had 20 and 19 deals, respectively, CB Insights noted.
Expect well - funded top dogs — companies like Bit9 + Carbon Black, Tanium, CrowdStrike — to weather the storm while more traditional
big tech names and security stalwarts snap up smaller firms through «tuck in»
acquisitions, cleaning up the field as the pipsqueaks wither away.
50:44 — Andy talks about how some of the
biggest tech companies have reinvented themselves numerous times — usually through
acquisitions.
On the heels of major exit announcements from our portfolio companies ServiceMax (pending
acquisition by GE Digital) and TubeMogul (pending
acquisition by Adobe), we have more
big news from Trinity Family member and Real Estate
tech company VTS as they announce their merger with former competitor Hightower.
Traditional automakers,
big tech giants and small, well - funded startups are scooping up all the talent they can through
acquisitions and mergers.
This is the second
big dating
acquisition by the
tech firm in the past six months, after buying white label leader Dating Factory last year.
This was not only the largest ever foreign deal by a Japanese company, but also the
biggest acquisition of European
tech yet.
This year saw one of the
biggest acquisition deals for a South African
tech startup — when US listed company 2U bought Getsmarter for $ 123 - million.
After being one of
tech's
biggest startup
acquisitions, WhatsApp has tripled in size under relatively hands - off management by Facebook.
While not as
big of a name as, say, the iPad,
tech enthusiasts remember the device as a pioneer in the Android tablet market and one of the company's last great products before the
acquisition carousel spun up.
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