Acquisitions
Wiz AcquisitionUSD 32 billion in cash at announcement. Alphabet's 10-Q gives USD 29.5 billion after purchase price adjustments and excluding post combination compensation arrangements.Google (Alphabet) · announced 18 March 2025 · United States and IsraelTwitter (now X) Acquisitionapproximately USD 44 billionX Holdings I, Inc., controlled by Elon Musk · announced 25 April 2022 · United StatesActivision Blizzard AcquisitionUSD 68.7 billion, inclusive of Activision Blizzard's net cashMicrosoft · announced 18 January 2022 · United StatesSlack Technologies Acquisitionenterprise value of approximately USD 27.7 billionSalesforce · announced 1 December 2020 · United StatesPaystack AcquisitionNot disclosed. TechCrunch reported more than USD 200 million.Stripe · announced 15 October 2020 · NigeriaCareem AcquisitionUSD 3.1 billion, of which USD 1.4 billion in cash and USD 1.7 billion in convertible notesUber Technologies · announced 26 March 2019 · United Arab EmiratesGitHub AcquisitionUSD 7.5 billion in Microsoft stockMicrosoft · announced 4 June 2018 · United StatesFlipkart Acquisitionapproximately USD 16 billion for an initial stake of approximately 77 percent, including USD 2 billion of new equity fundingWalmart · announced 9 May 2018 · IndiaSouq.com Acquisitionapproximately USD 586 million, net of cash acquired, in Amazon's June 2017 quarterly report, revised to approximately USD 579 million, net of cash acquired, in its September 2017 quarterly reportAmazon · announced 28 March 2017 · United Arab EmiratesARM Holdings Acquisitionapproximately GBP 24.0 billion (approximately USD 31.0 billion or JPY 3.3 trillion)SoftBank Group · announced 18 July 2016 · United KingdomLinkedIn AcquisitionUSD 26.2 billionMicrosoft · announced 13 June 2016 · United StatesWhatsApp Acquisitionapproximately USD 16 billion in cash and shares, plus USD 3 billion in restricted stock unitsFacebook (now Meta Platforms) · announced 19 February 2014 · United StatesDeepMind Technologies AcquisitionNot disclosed by Google. Re/code reported USD 400 million.Google (now Alphabet) · announced 26 January 2014 · United KingdomInstagram Acquisitionapproximately USD 1 billion in a combination of cash and sharesFacebook (now Meta Platforms) · announced 9 April 2012 · United StatesSkype AcquisitionUSD 8.5 billion in cashMicrosoft · announced 10 May 2011 · LuxembourgYouTube AcquisitionUSD 1.65 billion in stockGoogle (now Alphabet) · announced 9 October 2006 · United States