{"id":13497,"date":"2012-05-24T15:44:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T13:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=13497"},"modified":"2012-05-25T10:51:53","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T08:51:53","slug":"techs-largest-acquisitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/trending\/13497\/techs-largest-acquisitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech’s largest acquisitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google<\/a>, on Tuesday(22 May), finalised its buyout of Motorola Mobility<\/a> for a sum of $12.5 billion, making it the largest acquisition by the online search giant to date, and one of the largest in the tech industry.<\/p>\n

The second largest acquisition by Google was that of Internet ad serving service provider, DoubleClick, which was bought up for $3.1 billion in 2008. This was followed by Google’s acquition of YouTube<\/a> for $1.65 billion in 2006.<\/p>\n

Google’s 5 biggest acquitions<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/strong><\/td>\nAcquired<\/strong><\/td>\nAmount<\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nMotorola<\/td>\n$12.5 billion<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nDoubleClick<\/td>\n$3.1 billion<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nYouTube<\/td>\n$1.65 billion<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nAdMob<\/td>\n$750 million<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nITA Software<\/td>\n$676 million<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

When looking at the broader tech acquisitions, the Google\/Motorola deal sweeps past the most recent ‘largest’ acquisitions, including Microsoft’s<\/a> acquisition of online voice and video IM, Skype<\/a> in 2011 for $8.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Hewlett Packard’s<\/a> acquisition of enterprise software company, Autonomy in 2011 for $10.2 billion, was previously the biggest tech acquisition, over-shadowed only by AT&T’s<\/a> bid for T-Mobile<\/a> for $39 billion – a deal which was blocked and subsequently pulled.<\/p>\n

Tech’s largest acquisitions*<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Company<\/strong><\/td>\nAcquired<\/strong><\/td>\nAmount<\/strong><\/td>\nYear<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
AT&T<\/span><\/td>\nT-Mobile<\/span><\/td>\n$39.0 billion<\/span><\/td>\n2011<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nMotorola<\/td>\n$12.5 billion<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Hewlett -Packard<\/td>\nAutonomy<\/td>\n$10.2 billion<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Microsoft<\/td>\nSkype<\/td>\n$8.5 billion<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Oracle<\/td>\nSun Microsystems<\/td>\n$7.4 billion<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Western Digital<\/td>\nHitachi<\/td>\n$4.8 billion<\/td>\n2011<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Panasonic<\/td>\nSanyo<\/td>\n$4.6 billion<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nDoubleClick<\/td>\n$3.1 billion<\/td>\n2008<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
eBay<\/td>\nSkype<\/td>\n$2.5 billion<\/td>\n2005<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nYouTube<\/td>\n$1.65 billion<\/td>\n2006<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
eBay<\/td>\nPayPal<\/td>\n$1.5 billion<\/td>\n2002<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Facebook<\/td>\nInstagram<\/td>\n$1.0 billion<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nAdMob<\/td>\n$750 million<\/td>\n2009<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Google<\/td>\nITA Software<\/td>\n$676 million<\/td>\n2010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n

* Table depicts largest acquisitions of note<\/small>
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acquisitions in South Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n

One of the largest acquisition deals out of South Africa was the 2008 deal between Telkom<\/a> and Vodafone<\/a>, which saw Telkom selling a 15% stake in Vodacom<\/a> to the UK mobile operator for a price-tag of R22.5 billion. This pushed Vodafone’s share-holding in Vodacom up from 50% to 65%.<\/p>\n

In 2009, South Africa’s second-largest operator, MTN<\/a> was in the process of a merger deal with India’s Bharti-Airtel<\/a> at a value of $23 billion (R191.5 billion) – but the merger was canned as Bharti pulled out due to the South African government’s rejection of the proposed merger structure.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Reunert<\/a> purchased the business and net assets of ECN for R171,9 million; ECN Telecommunications<\/a> now operates as Nashua ECN<\/a>, a division of Reunert Limited.<\/p>\n

Currently, Telkom and Korea’s KT Corp<\/a> are in the process of finialising a deal which would see KT acquire a 20% stake in Telkom at R25.60 per new Telkom ordinary share – making the total value of the deal around $380 million** (R3.1 billion).<\/p>\n

In other sectors of South Africa, more notable acquisitions taking place in recent times were the acquisition of a majority share of Massmart by US wholesale giant, Wal-Mart, for $2.4 billion (16.5 billion), and South African brewery, SABMiller buyouts.<\/p>\n

The then-SAB acquired the U.S. Miller Brewing Company for $5 billion (R41.6 billion) in 2002 to form what is now known as SABMiller. The company then went on to buy up Australia’s Foster’s for $10.2 billion (R85 billion) in 2011.<\/p>\n

** Reverse calculated using previous share sale point of R36.06<\/small>
\nConversions taken at 1\u00a0USD\u00a0=\u00a08.32763\u00a0ZAR<\/small><\/p>\n

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