Largest IT Deals
Is dot.com 2.0 here? Well we call it by different names just to confuse the market, e.g. web 2.0, enterprise 2.0, xx 2.0. Some of the deals I know of:
- Google buying You Tube for $1.65bn in stock - $22 per visitor
- ebay buying Skype for $2.6bn
- News Corp buying Myspace for $580m - $10 per visitor
- Facebook in talks with Yahoo - $1bn - $67 per visitor
What other silly money deals do you know of?
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Dont know if they are silly money deals although there is a general concencus that mergers of htis type are frought with dangers.
As for other deals to compare to Wikipedia seem to have a reasonable list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Google