3 largest deals in 3 months
During the first quarter of 2014 got 3 acquisitions valued at 89 billion dollars.
Transaction is the largest in terms of value during that period was the acquisition of the largest provider of cable TV company Comcast, which owns NBC network on Time Warner Cable and thus controls 75% of the cable market in the United States, or 30 million subscribers.
And had paid Comcast during the past ten years approximately 65.6 billion dollars on acquisitions. Where last year bought entertainment giant NBC Universal from General Electric for $ 16.7 billion.
The second deal in terms of the size of the share of the second-largest pharmaceutical company in the world and so on Actavis Group PTC company Forest Laboratories drugs worth 25 billion dollars. The transaction is designed to save costs through the integration of research and development laboratories, which cost significantly and here comes the technical side of the bargain.
The third-largest deal in the first quarter of this year were the acquisition of Facebook Alwatsab at $ 19 billion dollars, which is a huge number of Facebook offer to buy any application for Aahakq profit and we talked at length previously Facebook goal of the deal, especially the rapid growth rate of users.
Acquisitions adult
1 Google
Let's start with Google, and in 2005 for the acquired system Android for $ 50 million dollars only and confession company they believe he is a risk then where the system was weak, though they did not pay a lot of money for him but he was the deal the most successful for the company, which changed its course and the world as well.
Today the largest Android system prevalent in smart devices and get on Google billion dollars of advertising revenues smartphones only.
In 2006, when acquired YouTube for $ 1.6 billion dollars paid as stock in the company, then YouTube did not expected him success witnessed by the day, but with four billion views a day Google started to finally make a profit from the site in a very costly operation and management.
YouTube has achieved his goal of ease of video sharing around the world and check Google revenues from 3.4 billion dollars and the value of the site is currently 15 billion dollars.
Because Google relationship with Samsung is not good, let alone appearances Korean company is pull the rug out from under Google, so she wanted to enter the Gaza smart phone industry itself and the best way is the acquisition of a giant like Motorola stumbling in 2012, at a price of 12.5 billion dollars.
Indeed, it was the goal of Google is to acquire a large amount of patents owned by the company honored in various areas related to smartphones, both in software and applications or hardware, later sold the Gaza cable with 2.1 billion dollars and then sector smartphones to Lenovo for $ 2.9 billion and laid off 4 thousands of workers and retained the patent and launched a promising project ARA.
And when thinking about Google in the future in considering what is known as the Internet of things and we can consider your company Nest is a gateway to a future where you want the company to collect data about users' habits in their homes so paid 3.2 billion dollars in order to know how to live through the day and still too early to We know what you intend to do with Google Nest as well as several companies in the field of robot purchased by check to the ambitions of future long think about it.
2 Microsoft
We can say that the war on e-mail in the nineties earned Microsoft bought Mail Hotmail in 1998 an estimated $ 500 million dollars - a large sum at the time, with the beginnings of Internet companies - and thus earned to compete with AOL and Yahoo, but the joy did not last even came Jie Mile and dominated the arena. The company has subsequently abandon the name of Hotmail with Outlook and integrating it further after a series of long-term success of the chat service MSN Messenger.
The reaction to buy Google's ad network Double Click Microsoft bought aQuantive Inc. for $ 6.3 billion dollars in 2007, and was considered the largest acquisition in the company's history. And of course she wants to lead the online advertising industry through a private company compete with Google, but in the result and after five years has not achieved anything noteworthy amount considered a great loss and was one of the worst deals that give important lessons.
It did not take the time and only on Microsoft acquired Skype in 2011 for $ 8.5 billion dollars with service time that were not achieved profits were therefore dangerous to the deal and the company's goal was to overthrow the services of competitors such as Time Weiss from Apple and from Google Voice calls to the Internet. This transaction and succeeded and grown market share for Skype Internet calls from international from 13% to 34% as the number of users grew from 27 to 50 million and the company achieved revenues of $ 2 billion last year.
Can not be a tiger on Microsoft only deals and talking about the latest and most famous of these transactions on a Nokia price of $ 7.2 billion in a move somewhat desperate attempt to truncate the bite of cake operating systems, smart devices dominant Android and iOS.
It is still too early to know the outcome of the deal, but Microsoft intends to take advantage of the possibilities of Nokia in the marketing system operation and after that I decided that the strategic partnership with Nokia and Windows Phone and played for Android despite the launch of the Nokia X series work a modified version