Here are the biggest tech acquisitions of all time, measured in 2015 dollars
Dell's $67 billion purchase of EMC is the biggest pure tech acquisition ever. (AOL's $162 billion buy of Time Warner in 2000 was larger, but Time Warner was a media company, not a tech company.) This chart from Statista shows some of the largest tech acquisitions of the past decade, measured in 2015 dollars.
There are a lot of dogs on the list.
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Google only held on to Motorola for 2 years before spinning most of the company back out to Lenovo for less than $3 billion. Microsoft-Skype and Oracle-Sun were neutral at best - neither one helped the buying company create significant new businesses, although some of the technology and expertise might have percolated through the organizations.
Of all these, only Facebook-WhatsApp falls into the "too early to tell" category.
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