Facebook acquired WhatsApp in February last year for $ 19 billion dollars, its most expensive buyout to date and the third largest
tech acquisition ever, losing out to HP's $ 33.4 billion acquisition of Compaq and Dell's $ 67 billion purchase of EMC.
The deal would have been the biggest
tech acquisition ever, but Broadcom is not backing down from its plan to buy the chipmaker.
The intrepid entrepreneur behind Nest, one of the most high - profile
tech acquisitions ever, has left.
Not exact matches
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.
The deal is one of the largest
acquisitions of an Israeli - based
tech company
ever.
This was not only the largest
ever foreign deal by a Japanese company, but also the biggest
acquisition of European
tech yet.