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Microsoft completes almost 30 years of technological development by purchasing the company Activision Blizzard in 2022 for an amount of almost $ 69 billion, displacing LinkedIn, which previously occupied the companyFirst place in the ranking of the company’s most expensive acquisitions. Activision has such famous titles as Warcraft, Diablo, Overwatch, Call of Duty and Candy Crush are also one of the main players in Major League Gaming.
LinkedIn was purchased in 2016 for $26.2 billion. This equates to $196 per share in an all-cash transaction.
The third was Nuance for $19.7 billion. Microsoft acquired the cloud software and artificial intelligence company for $56 per share in an all-cash transaction. The companies already had a partnership, but the acquisition allowed Microsoft to expand its healthcare cloud service with Nuance solutions.
The social platform Skype was acquired in 2011 for $8.5 billion. This is the fourth most expensive price in the last 20 years.
ZeniMax Media ranked fifth in 2020 with $8.1 billion. At the time of the acquisition, Microsoft noted that the cultural phenomenon of gaming was making it the largest and fastest-growing form of entertainment in the world.
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The sixth is GitHub in October 2018. The company assured at the time that the agreement was aimed at increasing business use of this platform and bringing Microsoft development tools and services to a new audience.
In 2013, the tech giant acquired Nokia. Valued at $7.2 billion, the company aimed to accelerate growth in its mobile share and revenue.
aQuantive was purchased in 2007. The purchase value, which rose to $6 billion, was the eighth most expensive.
Mojang reached $2.5 billion in 2014. You are known for the “Minecraft” franchise. At the time of the acquisition, Microsoft expressed that its investments in mobile and cloud technologies would enable gamers to benefit from richer and faster worlds.
And in January 2020 there is Visio Corp for $1.5 billion.
Investing and purchasing technology is critical
More and more technology companies are relying on purchasing solutions and innovations from all over the world to ensure their competitiveness.
“The era of digital transformation is already over, today every company that thinks about the future thinks about it with the digital and technological component. Since it is a step already taken, it is impracticable not to invest in digital as a business strategy, especially when it comes to being competitive and having a differentiating factor,” said Jorge Barón, Digital Vice President of Keyrus Latam.
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