How LinkedIn Stacks Up Against Other Microsoft Acquisitions -- Redmond Channel Partner

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How LinkedIn Stacks Up Against Other Microsoft Acquisitions

If successful, Microsoft's acquisition of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion would be the tech giant's highest-valued deal to date by a huge margin. The face value of the LinkedIn agreement is more than triple what Microsoft paid for the next biggest acquisition, Skype. The LinkedIn offer is about half the size of Microsoft's $44.6 billion bid in 2008 for Yahoo, but that deal ultimately did not go through.

Here are Microsoft's acquisitions worth $1 billion or more, ranked by their value at the time:

Rank	Company	Year	Value
1	LinkedIn	2016	$26.2 billion
2	Skype	2011	$8.5 billion
3	Nokia (partial)	2013	$7.2 billion
4	aQuantive	2007	$6.3 billion
5	Mojang	2014	$2.5 billion
6	Fast Search & Transfer	2008	$1.9 billion
7	Visio Corp.	2000	$1.4 billion
8	Navision	2002	$1.3 billion
9	Yammer	2012	$1.2 billion

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Posted by Scott Bekker on June 13, 2016

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