# Top 10 Tech Acquisition of All Time :
Recently Yahoo bought Tumblr.com for a whooping $1.1 Billion. These Days Tech Giants like Google Yahoo Microsoft Facebook are going way fast then expected by many expert in acquisition of smaller companies, about whom they feel can be their asset in future and increase their revenue. Now what we are seeing is competition growing up everyday in acquisition and merging of companies. Reason of these acquisition could be many which are basically integral part of company but few simpler ones are like matching your competition, predicting future of particular tech start up, fear of competition by certain start up and it could also be investing in something what you want but is already their in market started by someone else.
We don’t know what will be the future of yahoo or where Tumblr will go from here, as we have already seen some of Yahoo acquisition failed in past. We have to wait and watch for this. But here we can check list of Top 10 biggest and most costly Tech Acquisition of all time.
10. AOL Acquired Time Warner for……. 162 Billion USD in January 2000
9. Google Acquired Motorola for 13 Billion USD in 2012
8. Oracle Acquired PeopleSoft for 10.5 Billion USD in 2004
7. Microsoft Acquired Skype for 8.5 Billion USD in 2011
6. Oracle Acquired Software Company Sun Microsystems Inc for 7.5 Billion USD in April 2009
5. Google Acquiring Youtube for 1.65 Billion USD in October 2006
4. Facebook acquired Instagram for 1 Billion Dollar in April 2012
3. ebay Buying PayPal for 1 Billion USD in 2002
2. Yahoo bought Tumblr.com for 1.1 Billion USD in 2013
1. Microsoft Acquired HoTMaiL for 400 Million USD in 1997
Source Staff : top10wala
