FACTBOX-Largest tech deals of the last decade
March 18 (Reuters) - Alphabet GOOGL.O said on Tuesday it would buy Wiz for $32 billion in its biggest deal as the Google parent doubles down on cybersecurity to sharpen its edge in the cloud-computing race against Amazon.com and Microsoft.
Below is a list of the largest U.S. technology deals in the last decade:
Target | Acquirer | Deal Value | Closing Date |
Twenty-First Century Fox | Walt Disney DIS.N | $71 billion | March 2019 |
VMware | Broadcom AVGO.O | $69 billion | November 2023 |
Activision Blizzard | Microsoft MSFT.O | $69 billion | October 2023 |
EMC Corp | Dell Technologies DELL.N | $67 billion | September 2016 |
Elon Musk | $44 billion | October, 2022 | |
Broadcom | Avago Technologies | $37 billion | February 2016 |
Red Hat | International Business Machines IBM.N | $34 billion | July 2019 |
Wiz | Alphabet GOOGL.O | $32 billion | 2026 |
Splunk | Cisco CSCO.O | $28 billion | March 2024 |
Slack Technologies | Salesforce CRM.N | $27.7 billion | July 2021
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Microsoft | $26.2 billion | December 2016 | |
Meta Platforms META.O | $22 billion | October 2014 | |
CA Technologies | Broadcom | $19 billion | November 2018 |
Tableau | Salesforce | $15.7 billion | August 2019 |
Whole Foods Market | Amazon.com AMZN.O | $13.7 billion | August 2017 |
Yahoo's core business | Verizon | $4.48 billion | June 2017 |
Nest Labs | Alphabet GOOGL.O | $3.2 billion | February 2014 |
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