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There are plenty of lists of worst tech acquisitions of all time.

So, what are the largest billion dollar tech acquisitions of all time?

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Popular tech startups find themselves the target of acquisition talks, too.

Chinese tech giants are now outright acquiring or taking majority shares in overseas companies, such as Ctrip's (China's leading online travel agency and number two market leader in the world, second only to Priceline) acquisition of the UK's leading travel search site Skyscanner, Tencent's 93 % investment in U.S. - based gaming company Riot Games and 84 % investment in Finland - based gaming company Supercell, and Alibaba's 83 % stake in Southeast Asia's online shopping site Lazada.

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.

Michal Kauffman writes: By Stage 4, in addition to the panic the company may be feeling as a whole, all sorts of competing interests come out of the woodwork when it comes time to actually move forward with significant investments and real money: from the European tech team that is jazzed about the acquisition, to the U.S. tech team that's threatened by it, to the corporate VC team that hates it because it will undermine a competing investment in their portfolio, to the Services Division as a whole worried about their jobs if the acquisition goes through and much of their work gets automated, etc....

What I have learned from many years of working with tech - enabled growth companies; on both sides of mergers and acquisitions; and angel, private equity and venture capital investments, is that accretion of IP value is the key element to supporting overall enterprise value — representing scalability in phases of rapid growth and supporting attractive multiples during the fundraising and exit phases.

Outgoing migme chairman Howard Dawson plans to become a director of a Singapore - founded fantasy sports company that is seeking an ASX listing through Nevada Iron, as another Perth company backed out of a tech acquisition because of an ASX ruling.

Moreover, a handful of acquisition - happy tech companies have shown a willingness to add services by buying tiny, money - losing start - ups for tens of millions of dollars.

Perth - based Excalibur Mining Corporation's shares closed over 150 per cent higher on news it was considering an acquisition of Singapore - based tech company Dropmysite for an undisclosed sum.

A proposed acquisition of tech entrepreneur Justin Miller's company, Nuheara, by Wild Acre Metals has hit a major roadblock after concerns were raised by the corporate watchdog.

With growth in mind, Yahoo has made several high - profile acquisitions aimed at building the Sunnyvale, California - based tech company's audience reach and depth of talent.

Last week certainly wasn't wanting for bombshell tech news, what with Google's acquisition of Motorola and HP announcing it was effectively exiting the consumer business in favour of concentrating on business customers.

The group has lost six managing directors and one director so far this year, including the bulk of the West Coast tech mergers - and - acquisitions team.

Massive tech players like IBM and Capgemini could go on a mergers and acquisitions «shopping spree» for financial technology (fintech) start - ups next year, the chief of one such start - up has told CNBC.

They identify a need and do whatever it takes, including lucrative acquisitions and seven - figure compensation packages,» says Sarah Kunst, a proponent of the tech diversity movement and the founder of Proday, a fitness app.

Merger and acquisition activity should pickup for tech companies if the U.S. tax bill passes as expected, says John Mathis of Harbor View Advisors.

To account for external innovation, too, a company's portfolio of startup acquisitions is assessed for similarity with best - performing venture capital funds and share of tech areas with the strongest investment growth.

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.

«Verizon seems one of the more obvious ones given its previous acquisition of AOL and its efforts to build a broad ad network and ad tech capability.»

Unrestricted access to American technology; relaxation, if not removal, of controls on sensitive high tech U.S. exports; unrestricted ability to make acquisitions of U.S. companies; substantial changes in trade remedy laws to lessen their impact.

While Apple is known primarily for its focus on music, the fact that Schusser also has a background in tech acquisitions — such as Shazam — and will work part of the time in Culver City suggests that Shazam and movies could become a serious part of Apple's ambitions, as opposed to just bonus content for music lovers.

That desire is further fueled by the recent incredible rate of disruptive tech startups acquisitions.

The company has made a series of ad - tech and data acquisitions over the past few years.

With a community of dedicated gamers and hardware for PC, TV, mobile, and wearables, tech «unicorn» Razer is an attractive acquisition target.

Over the past few years, we've seen traction: Consider VMWare's $ 1.54 billion acquisition of AirWatch; the growth of startup hubs like Atlanta Tech Village and Tech Square; and company success stories like that of Kabbage, which just raised $ 150 million, at an $ 875 million valuation.

From Intelsat's $ 13 billion deal for OneWeb to Cisco's $ 3.7 billion deal for AppDynamics, the firm's tech, media, and telecom mergers and acquisitions team had its busiest start to the year in terms of number of deals since 2000, announcing 18 deals in the first two months of the year valued at nearly $ 30 billion.

The deal is one of the largest acquisitions of an Israeli - based tech company ever.

50:44 — Andy talks about how some of the biggest tech companies have reinvented themselves numerous times — usually through acquisitions.

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Startups dream of being one of the next billion dollar tech acquisitions.

I spoke with LeBrun about the importance of networking events like CIX to the Canadian tech scene, how his job has changed since the acquisition and how social technology is changing how we do business.

Notably, this is the first acquisition in years at Nokia that's focused on consumer tech: the last several, including the ingestion of Alcatel - Lucent, have been about building out its mobile back - end and networking businesses.

The intrepid entrepreneur behind Nest, one of the most high - profile tech acquisitions ever, has left.

His departure is likely to renew speculation that Twitter is an acquisition target for the handful of tech giants that could afford the company, which currently has a market valuation topping $ 24 billion.

If it pushes through, this will be the largest tech acquisition in history, eclipsing Dell's $ 67 billion purchase of EMC in 2015.

«The focus from the two tech giants on «on demand» services or «online to offline», as they call it in the tech world, is meant to help promote their online and mobile payment services,» Pacific Chiba Trust Head of Mergers & Acquisitions Louis Hunter said in a statement.

Watch for large - cap tech sector companies to announce acquisitions of startups, as valuations for unicorns and other overvalued startups continue to decline.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS Verizon's purchase of Yahoo assets will help it build the strength it needs to compete with other telecomm / tech giants.

Amid growing concerns over the impact of tech giant Amazon's pending acquisition of Whole Foods Market, the company lowered its expected IPO range to $ 10 to $ 11 a share on Wednesday, down from the $ 15 to $ 17 range it had initially forecast.

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.

Intel has confirmed its acquisition of Mobileye in a massive $ 15.3 billion deal that could shake up the driverless car tech sector.

Just one month into the new year, Facebook has already made multiple acquisitions of both tech and talent.

Early outreach to startups provides a number of benefits, including the ability to push its Azure cloud platform, get early access to possible acquisition targets, and keep tabs on what's going on at the cutting edge of the tech ecosystem.

J.P. Morgan advised its clients on 38 acquisitions of tech companies worth a total of $ 64.2 billion in 2013 — a greater value than any other bank, according to Dealogic.

But for the other 99.99 % of entrepreneurs and investors, the really exciting news is the large number of tech company acquisitions for under $ 30 million.

Twitter operates in the most fast - paced area of the Tech sector and acquisitions are always a possibility.

A lot of money is being spent on research and acquisitions in tech stocks, but companies and analysts commonly leave these costs out, saying that these expenditures will produce more income in the future.

Tech giant Microsoft faces further restructuring and impairment charges related to its troubled 2014 acquisition of Nokia, in an ongoing struggle to successfully integrate and streamline its handset business.