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