The tech world is still grappling with this week’s announcement of Twitter’s acquisition by the world’s richest man, Elon Musk for a whopping $44 billion.
But that is not the first acquisition to raise the dust in the tech world.
While the Twitter/Elon Musk deal has been described as the biggest acquisition by an individual, in no particular order, these are the 10 major much-talked-about acquisitions in tech history:
- Twitter – Elon Musk
- Skype – Microsoft
- Tumblr – Yahoo
- Slack – Salesforce
- Instagram – Facebook
- WhatsApp – Facebook
- YouTube – Google
- LinkedIn – Microsoft
- Fitbit – Google
- Nokia – Microsoft
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