The biggest acquisitions in 2014
There are a large number of reasons why a company pay ten times the annual revenue to buy a company that does not verifiable and cents of profits, based technology companies to acquire small companies for several reasons often seem in short-term vague and unclear, but you will know it is successful deal in the long However the term does not mean the success of all acquisitions.
Can strategic acquisition that prevents the company and change the future shape and develops dramatically or destroy what is wrong, or even change the world, as it did when Google acquired YouTube and the Android system.
During the first quarter of 2014 was only the total value of acquisitions in the global technology companies 756 billion dollars. The number of acquisitions last year deal in 2710, a decline from the rates in 2012 and 2011 where she was a deal in excess of 2930 per year and that only in the field of technology.
We follow the most important acquisitions adult in the second part of it.
Disclaimer: This article was written before Apple's acquisition of the Beats, so we did not take into account here, but we decided a special article.
3 Apple
Apple usually hide acquisition deals and favors small businesses and confidentiality of this spent more than 11 billion dollars over the past year on various transactions.
Is the acquisition of Apple company NeXT in 1996 strangest and most important of its kind and after that deviated company derailed as a result of the expulsion of its founder Steve Jobs, so remorse Board of Directors and returned and bought the company founded by Steve after leaving Apple in order to return to it and continues to change the world.
The deal, which cost 429 million dollars was in order to obtain the operating system developed by the company and then transformed into the nucleus of a launch system, OS X. As a result of this deal pulled Steve Apple of failure and came back and gave the world the best creative products in various sectors Kalaifun iPod touch and iPad.
Because Apple wants to control more on the supply chain, especially in processors and other semiconductor company acquired a design of electronic circuits and processors PA Semi for $ 278 in 2008 to design and manufacture low power consumption processors for use in the iPod and the iPhone next. Thus, Apple has been able to control more processors in the supply chain depends on the architecture of the IBM Energy until he graduated from the mercy of Samsung, which is used in the ARM architecture processors. And recall what floated to the world's first smart phone 64-bit processor last year.
Two years later he bought recognition technology and voice assistant Siri for $ 250 million dollars and this started the big companies to engage in a new war to make more phones interact with users and understand their surroundings. And we can see Google Now that the upgraded version of the voice aid is to Aaktefi answer your questions and implement orders but anticipate it and know what you need to know later, and put you before dialing up, and it was Microsoft's last entry among adults with Assistant voice Kortana. All of this opens the door and a wide range of machine learning.
The latest rage that came out Apple is opening the phone across the footprint, the truth is this the first step towards the future of e-commerce to collect data fingerprints of users as well as to have a credit card stored in the iTunes store purchase thus becomes one-touch only a fait accompli.
In 2012, Apple bought AuthenTec Inc. for $ 356 million dollars and benefited from its technology in encryption and fingerprint sensors and identity management software in the iPhone and the goal was to add to the technology owned by the company has a team of engineers who will come to Apple's new industry. Then put Apple sensitive footprint in the iPhone 5 S and soon we expect to launch a digital wallet, such as shielded carry all your data with the company that bought and Kalttabiqat campaign and what in your device and music style you prefer and places frequented and many others.
4 Facebook
Most of the acquisitions Facebook was to strengthen the social network talents and products leading the young and the company has since 2007 acquired 50 companies and was the year 2011 is the most important where bought 11 different companies, and the most prominent of those acquisitions and the largest was Alwatsab and accepted Anstgram and note that they share a sizeable value of the deal and the company purchased ascertains returns.
However in 2007, the beginnings of Facebook made its first acquisition of a company Parakey and is considered one of the most important acquisitions for the purpose of employment to obtain the skills of the team in addition to the company's operating system is based on the Web and allows users to update their files without the need for internet connection. Although he did not disclose the value of the deal, however, co-founder Blake Ross said that the deal led to convert a website built by a young man in a university dorm room to the platform connects the world in 196 countries and more than one billion users.
But then I noticed that the Facebook world is moving more to use the Internet via smartphones social networking is bigger than personal computers, so it was necessary to establish presented on the small screen also Fasthozt Anstgram the network to share photos and video clips, one billion dollars.
There are several factors in Anstgram pushed Facebook to buy them from the most important of the rapid growth of the service despite the presence only on the iPhone first and then on the Android did not have the time on the Web, where it was growing at a rate faster than Twitter or YouTube thus thought Facebook that he can later use these social network as a tool to achieve revenue through advertising on the network without affecting the original blue.
Currently there are more than 200 million user on Anstgram is post 20 billion photos a day and 1 billion impress.
Among the most important deals Facebook and technology companies are generally the acquisition of Alwatsab at $ 19 billion dollars despite the fact that the application for Aahakq any profits remember, but also in Anstgram the rate of growth of users than Facebook itself and with 500 million active users become Alwatsab faster service continues immediate growth and available on all platforms phones.
To know the speed of growth Alwatsab, ask Facebook 4 years, bringing the number of registered users of the service user 145 million after it was launched outside American universities, but Alwatsab during the same period earned more than 400 million users.
Too early to know how you want to take advantage Facebook from Alwatsab, and there assurances now that it will not display the ads and the current goal is to focus on growth more, in spite of the presence of other services competition and large, particularly in Asia but remains Alwatsab is the largest and most widespread globally with it's not available on the Web and your computer.
The acquisition and Facebook on company hardware industry Oculus VR virtual reality of long-term deals, where Mark Zuckerberg is expected to become a virtual reality technique is the most widely used platform for communication and change our way of life, whether working or playing. And $ 2 billion dollars devices can change the virtual reality that a lot of the games most prominent industries in the future, sees Facebook that this technology is the future after the smart phone boom, in which we live today.