Number of acquisition has been recorded in the year 2009 and we are hereby enlightening the top most acquisition of the year and recently the news that Google has started its negotiations with the online reviews giant, Yelp. The move comes as a part of Google’s strategy to dominate the only remaining online marketing segment it doesn’t cover, the local markets. The company expects the move to promote its mobile and maps business as roughly 15-40 percent of all local searches have some sort of local comment. After two weeks hopefully Google will finalize the deal and it will be considered as a significant acquisition.
Here we are making a list of companies acquired in the year 2009. We are herby giving Web, software, hardware and mobile-related acquisitions. In the year 2009 the biggest acquisition was 74 billion dollars in the Oracle of the Sun acquisition which is not yet finished and still final approval by regulatory authorities is awaited. Though, it became a symbolic issue and a large acquisition after this economic crisis.
Hewlett-Packard 3Com has a 27 billion) acquisition ( in the list at No. 8), Intel to Wind River to $ 8400 million acquisition stands at No. 16 in the list of top 30, Microsoft has Razorfish to $ 530 million sold to companies in France (No. 23) and continued large-scale projects.
The acquisition could have a major impact on the market in addition to the amount, Amazon for $ 1.2B (12 billion) acquisition of leading online shopping with Zappos (No. 14), Google’s $ 750M (7 250 million dollars) in mobile ad network AdMob acquisition (No. 20), Cisco for $ 590M for Pure Digital / Flip Video acquisition (No. 21) and making it hard. This year was also active in social gaming-related acquisitions. Electronic Arts (EA) is Playfish to $ 400M (4 billion) acquisition (No. 27) was two days later, Playfish rival, Playdom valuation before investing $ 260M (2 billion 6 million) in financing success.
But did not enter the top 30, as the other outstanding issue is the American Express $ 300M (3 billion) in acquisition of Revolution Money (No.35), respectively, and $ 170M in Intuit’s acquisition Mint (No. 45), PayCycle (No. 46) deal, Google’s $ 106M (1 106 million dollars) in On2 Technologies acquisition (No. 57), Facebook’s $ 47.5M (4750 dollars) in deal from FriendFeed (No. 86), MySpace for $ 20M (2 million) deal with iLike (No. 133), Apple’s $ 17M (1700 dollars) in acquisition LaLa (No. 143) and was .
IT system following the 2009 M & A is a list of the top 30.
Company that was acquired by buyout price
1. Sun Microsystems Oracle Corporation $ 7,400,000,000
2. Affiliated Computer Services Xerox $ 5,750,000,000
3. Sanyo Panasonic $ 4,600,000,000
4. Marvel Entertainment The Walt Disney Company $ 4,000,000,000
5. Perot Systems Dell $ 3,900,000,000
6. Tandberg Cisco $ 3,000,000,000
7. Unitymedia Liberty Global $ 3,000,000,000
8. 3Com Hewlett-Packard $ 2,700,000,000
9. Starent Networks Cisco $ 2,600,000,000
10. Data Domain EMC Corporation $ 2,100,000,000
11. Omniture Adobe Systems $ 1,800,000,000
12. Varian Agilent $ 1,500,000,000
13. SPSS IBM $ 1,200,000,000
14. Zappos Amazon $ 1,200,000,000
15. Wind River Intel $ 884,000,000
16. IPCS Sprint Nextel $ 831,000,000
17. Interwoven Autonomy $ 775,000,000
18. Nortel Networks Ciena $ 769,000,000
19. AdMob Google $ 750,000,000
20. Pure Digital Technologies Cisco $ 590,000,000
21. WildBlue ViaSat $ 568,000,000
22. Razorfish Publicis Groupe $ 530,000,000
23. Virgin Mobile USA Sprint Nextel $ 483,000,000
24. Web Reservations International Hellman & Friedman $ 458,000,000
25. LifeSize Communications Logitech $ 405,000,000
26. Playfish Electronic Arts $ 400,000,000
27. BuscaPe Naspers $ 374,000,000
28. SpringSource VMware $ 362,000,000
29. BBN Technologies Raytheon $ 350,000,000
30. Retail Convergence GSI Commerce $ 350,000,000