POPA ReconTop 10 Greatest Acquisitions of All Time
Top 10 Greatest Acquisitions of All Time The best deals in tech history weren't the biggest ones, they were the cheapest. Google bought Android in 2005 for $50M, and it's now valued at $112B, a ~2,240x return. Next comes Booking at ~345x, which Priceline bought for $135M, and Next at ~294x, the $429M deal that brought Steve Jobs back to Apple. Google appears four times on the list, with DoubleClick, YouTube, Android and Maps, and those four deals cost it under $5B combined for an estimated $480B+ in value today. Meta's $1B Instagram purchase, mocked as overpriced in 2012, is now worth an est…
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