List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft

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Microsoft is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions. Established on April 4, 1975, to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800, Microsoft rose to dominate the home computer operating system market with MS-DOS in the mid-1980s, followed by the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems. Microsoft would also come to dominate the office suite market with Microsoft Office. The company has diversified in recent years into the video game industry with the Xbox, the Xbox 360, the Xbox One, and the Xbox Series X as well as into the consumer electronics and digital services market with Zune, MSN and the Windows Phone OS.

The company's initial public offering was held on March 14, 1986. The stock, which eventually closed at $27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. After the offering, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $519.777 million.[1] Microsoft has subsequently acquired over 225 companies, purchased stakes in 64 companies, and made 25 divestments. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 107 were based in the United States. Microsoft has not released financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions.

Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1986, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. The company purchased more than ten companies a year between 2005 and 2008, and it acquired 18 firms in 2006, the most in a single year, including Onfolio, Lionhead Studios, Massive Incorporated, ProClarity, Winternals Software, and Colloquis. Microsoft has made fourteen acquisitions worth over one billion dollars: Skype (2011), aQuantive (2007), Fast Search & Transfer (2008), Navision (2002), Visio Corporation (2000), Yammer (2012), Nokia's mobile and devices division (2013), Mojang (2014), LinkedIn (2016), GitHub (2018), Affirmed Networks (2020), ZeniMax Media (2020), Nuance Communications (2021), and Activision Blizzard (2022).

Microsoft has also purchased several stakes valued at more than a billion dollars. It obtained an 11.5% stake in Comcast for $1 billion, a 22.98% stake in Telewest for $2.263 billion, and a 3% stake in AT&T for $5 billion. Among Microsoft's divestments, in which parts of the company are sold to another company, only Expedia Group was sold for more than a billion dollars; USA Networks purchased the company on February 5, 2002, for $1.372 billion (~$2.22 billion in 2023).

Key acquisitions

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One of Microsoft's first acquisitions was Forethought on July 30, 1987. Forethought was founded in 1983 and developed a presentation program that would later be known as Microsoft PowerPoint.[2]

On December 31, 1997, Microsoft acquired Hotmail.com for $500 million (~$882 million in 2023), its largest acquisition at the time, and integrated Hotmail into its MSN group of services.[3] Hotmail, a free webmail service founded in 1996 by Jack Smith and Sabeer Bhatia,[4] had more than 8.5 million subscribers earlier that month.[5]

In 1999, Microsoft reportedly discussed a buyout of Nintendo. However, execs failed to negotiate a deal, with Xbox co-inventor Kevin Bachus explaining "They just laughed their asses off."[6][7][8]

Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000, for $1.375 billion (~$2.31 billion in 2023). Visio, a software company, was founded in 1990 as Axon Corporation, and had its initial public offering in November 1995.[9] The company developed the diagramming application software, Visio, which was integrated into Microsoft's product line as Microsoft Visio after its acquisition.

On July 12, 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision for $1.33 billion (~$2.15 billion in 2023). The company, which developed the technology for the Microsoft Dynamics NAV enterprise resource planning software, was integrated into Microsoft as a new division named Microsoft Business Solutions,[10] later renamed to Microsoft Dynamics.[11]

Microsoft purchased aQuantive, an advertising company, on August 13, 2007, for $6.333 billion (~$8.97 billion in 2023). Before the acquisition, aQuantive was ranked 14th in terms of revenue among advertising agencies worldwide. aQuantive had three subsidiaries at the time of the acquisition: Avenue A/Razorfish, one of the world's largest digital agencies,[12] Atlas Solutions, and DRIVE Performance Solutions.[13]

Microsoft acquired the Norwegian enterprise search company Fast Search & Transfer on April 25, 2008, for $1.191 billion (~$1.66 billion in 2023) to boost its search technology.[14]

On May 10, 2011, Microsoft announced its acquisition of Skype Technologies, creator of the VoIP service Skype, for $8.5 billion (~$11.4 billion in 2023).[15] With a value 32 times larger than Skype's operating profits, the deal was Microsoft's largest acquisition at the time.[16][17] Skype would become a division within Microsoft, with Skype's former CEO Tony Bates —then the division's first president —reporting to the CEO of Microsoft.[18]

On September 2, 2013, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire the mobile hardware division of Nokia (which had established a long-term partnership with Microsoft to produce smartphones built off its Windows Phone platform)[19] in a deal worth 3.79 billion euros, along with another 1.65 billion to license Nokia's portfolio of patents. Steve Ballmer considered the purchase to be a "bold step into the future" for both companies, primarily as a result of its recent collaborations. The acquisition, scheduled to close in early 2014 pending regulatory approval, did not include the Here mapping service or the infrastructure division Nokia Solutions and Networks, which will be retained by Nokia.[20][21] While the deal went through, in May 2016 Microsoft abandoned its mobile business and sold the Nokia feature phone line.

In September 2014, Microsoft purchased Mojang for $2.5 billion (~$3.17 billion in 2023).[22]

On June 13, 2016, Microsoft announced it planned to acquire the professional networking site LinkedIn for $26.2 billion, to be completed by the end of 2016. The acquisition would keep LinkedIn as a distinct brand and retain its current CEO, Jeff Weiner, who will subsequently report to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.[23] The acquisition was completed on December 8, 2016.[24]

On June 4, 2018, Microsoft acquired the popular code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion (~$8.96 billion in 2023) in Microsoft stock.[25]

On September 21, 2020, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire ZeniMax Media and all its subsidiaries for $7.5 billion (~$8.7 billion in 2023). The acquisition was completed on March 9, 2021.

On January 18, 2022, Microsoft announced its intent to acquire Activision Blizzard, an American video game holding company, for $68.7 billion in cash.[26] The deal has been approved by both companies' board of directors and was finalized on October 13, 2023, with the total cost of the acquisition amounting to $75.4 billion, following international government regulatory review of the action.[27][28]

Acquisitions

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Date Company Business Country Value (USD) Ref(s).
1 June 20, 1986 Dynamical Systems Research Operating systems  United States 1,500,000 [29][30]
2 July 30, 1987 Forethought, Inc. Computer software  United States 14,000,000 [31]
3 March 31, 1991 Consumers Software Software  Canada — [32]
4 June 29, 1992 Fox Software PC database software  United States 174,000,000 [33][34]
5 February 28, 1994 Softimage Wholesale 3-D visualization software  Canada 130,000,000 [35]
6 September 27, 1994 Altamira Software Software  United States — [36]
7 November 1, 1994 NextBase Software  United Kingdom — [37]
8 November 15, 1994 One Tree Software Software  United States — [38]
9 February 23, 1995 RenderMorphics 3D graphics hardware  United States — [39]
10 July 10, 1995 Network Managers Systems design  United Kingdom — [40]
11 October 17, 1995 The Blue Ribbon SoundWorks Software  United States — [41]
12 November 6, 1995 Netwise Computer software  United States — [42]
13 December 12, 1995 Bruce Artwick Organization Programming  United States — [43]
14 January 16, 1996 Vermeer Technologies Software  United States 133,000,000 [44]
15 March 6, 1996 VGA-Animation Software Div[note 1] Software  Germany — [45]
16 March 12, 1996 Colusa Software Software  United States — [46]
17 April 16, 1996 Exos Video game controllers  United States — [47]
18 April 23, 1996 Aspect Software Engineering Computer software  United States 14,150,000 [48]
19 June 11, 1996 eShop Inc. Software  United States 50,000,000 [49]
20 June 17, 1996 Electric Gravity Electronic games  United States — [50]
21 November 1, 1996 Panorama Software Sys-On-Line[note 2] Software  Canada — [51]
22 February 3, 1997 NetCarta Internet software  United States 20,000,000 [52]
23 March 3, 1997 Interse Internet software  United States — [53]
24 April 30, 1997 WebTV Networks Internet service provider  United States 425,000,000 [54]
25 May 7, 1997 Dimension X Java-based platforms  United States — [55]
26 June 13, 1997 Cooper & Peters Programming  United States — [56]
27 June 30, 1997 LinkAge Software Internet software development  Canada — [57]
28 August 5, 1997 VXtreme Internet video software  United States — [58]
29 December 31, 1997 Hotmail Internet software  United States 500,000,000 [59]
30 February 23, 1998 Flash Communications Enterprise instant messaging software  United States — [60][61]
31 April 15, 1998 Firefly Relationship management software  United States 40,000,000 [62]
32 April 28, 1998 MESA Group Data sharing software  United States — [63]
33 August 25, 1998 Valence Research Internet software  United States — [64]
34 November 6, 1998 LinkExchange Internet advertising network  United States 265,000,000 [65]
35 January 11, 1999 Virtual World Entertainment Group Video games  United States — [66]
36 March 4, 1999 CompareNet Shopping online  United States — [67]
37 March 26, 1999 Numinous Technologies Software  United States — [68]
38 April 19, 1999 Access Software Video games  United States — [69]
39 April 27, 1999 Interactive Objects-Digital Web music software  United States — [70]
40 April 30, 1999 Jump Networks Internet service provider  United States — [71]
41 June 7, 1999 ShadowFactor Software Wholesale computer software  United States — [72]
42 June 15, 1999 Omnibrowse Internet software  United States — [73]
43 June 28, 1999 Intrinsa Defect detection software  United States 58,900,000 [74]
44 July 1, 1999 Sendit Application software  Sweden 125,420,000 [75]
45 July 7, 1999 Zoomit Encryption software  Canada — [76]
46 July 21, 1999 STNC Community software  United Kingdom — [77]
47 September 19, 1999 Softway Systems Computer programming  United States — [78]
48 October 29, 1999 Entropic Software  United States — [79]
49 January 7, 2000 Visio Corporation Wholesale drawing software  United States 1,375,000,000 [80]
50 February 29, 2000 Peach Networks Digital TV services  Israel — [81]
51 March 17, 2000 Travelscape Internet service provider  United States 89,750,000 [82]
52 April 12, 2000 Titus Communications Cable television  United States 944,800,000 [83]
53 June 19, 2000 Bungie Video games  United States — [84]
54 July 12, 2000 NetGames Software  United States — [85]
55 September 13, 2000 MongoMusic Online music search engine  United States 65,000,000 [86]
56 September 27, 2000 Pacific Microsonics Digital audio technology  United States — [87]
57 December 5, 2000 Digital Anvil Video games  United States — [88]
58 March 17, 2001 Vacationspot Internet service provider  United States 70,850,000 [89]
59 April 5, 2001 Great Plains Software Business management software  United States 939,884,000 [90]
60 May 2, 2001 Intellisol International Software  Canada — [91]
61 May 3, 2001 Ensemble Studios Video games  United States 100,000,000 [92]
62 May 31, 2001 NCompass Labs Internet software  Canada 36,000,000 [93]
63 June 21, 2001 Maximal Innovative Intelligence Software  Israel 20,000,000 [94]
64 July 1, 2001 Yupi Online Spanish portal  United States — [95]
65 March 11, 2002 Classic Custom Vacations Travel agency  United States 78,000,000 [96]
66 May 22, 2002 Sales Management Systems Software  United States — [97]
67 July 12, 2002 Navision Software programming  Denmark 1,330,000,000 [98]
68 July 29, 2002 Mobilocity Computer consulting  United States — [99]
69 September 10, 2002 XDegrees Security software  United States — [100]
70 September 24, 2002 Rare Video games  United Kingdom 375,000,000 [101]
71 December 13, 2002 Vicinity Online enterprise location  United States 95,849,000 [102]
72 February 25, 2003 Connectix Software  United States — [103]
73 March 3, 2003 DCG Internet software  Australia — [104]
74 April 30, 2003 PlaceWare Web conferencing  United States 200,000,000 [105]
75 May 27, 2003 G.A. Sullivan Information technology  United States — [106]
76 June 10, 2003 GeCAD Software Antivirus technology  Romania — [107]
77 August 29, 2003 3DO Co-High Heat Baseball Software  United States 450,000 [108]
78 April 22, 2004 Encore Bus Solutions-IP Asts IP assets  United States — [109]
79 April 26, 2004 ActiveViews Reporting systems  United States — [110]
80 July 16, 2004 Lookout Software Personal search tool  United States — [111]
81 December 16, 2004 GIANT Company Software Anti-spyware  United States — [112]
82 March 2, 2005 en'tegrate Software  United States — [113]
83 March 10, 2005 Groove Networks Community software  United States 120,000,000 [114]
84 May 11, 2005 MessageCast Messaging  United States 7,000,000 [115]
85 May 31, 2005 Tsinghua-Shenxun-Cert Asts Certain assets  China 15,000,000 [116]
86 June 21, 2005 Sybari Software Software  United States — [117]
87 August 29, 2005 Teleo VoIP  United States — [118]
88 August 31, 2005 FrontBridge Technologies Email protection  United States — [119]
89 September 19, 2005 Alacris Certificate management software  United States — [120]
90 November 3, 2005 media-streams.com Software  Switzerland — [121]
91 November 17, 2005 5th Finger Mobile  Australia 3,153,000 [122]
92 January 19, 2006 UMT-Software and IP Assets Software  United States — [123]
93 February 13, 2006 MotionBridge Search  France 17,858,000 [124]
94 February 13, 2006 Seadragon Software Software  United States — [125]
95 March 7, 2006 Apptimum Software  United States — [126]
96 March 7, 2006 Onfolio Internet software  United States — [127]
97 April 6, 2006 Lionhead Studios Video games  United Kingdom — [128]
98 April 26, 2006 AssetMetrix Enterprise asset intelligence (SaaS)  Canada 18,000,000 [129]
99 May 4, 2006 Massive Incorporated Video game advertising  United States — [130]
100 May 4, 2006 Vexcel Mapping software  United States — [131]
101 May 15, 2006 DeepMetrix Web log analysis  United States — [132]
102 June 6, 2006 ProClarity Analysis software  United States — [133]
103 June 27, 2006 iView Multimedia Digital asset management  United Kingdom — [134]
104 July 17, 2006 Softricity Application virtualization software  United States — [135]
105 July 18, 2006 Winternals Software Software  United States — [136]
106 July 26, 2006 Whale Communications Applications  Israel — [137]
107 September 26, 2006 Gteko Applications  Israel — [138]
108 October 2, 2006 DesktopStandard Applications  United States — [139]
109 October 12, 2006 Colloquis Natural language software  United States — [140]
110 March 9, 2007 Medstory Internet search engine  United States — [141]
111 March 26, 2007 devBiz Business Solutions Software tools  United States — [142]
112 May 3, 2007 ScreenTonic Advertising and marketing  France — [143]
113 May 3, 2007 Tellme Networks Mobile phone software  United States — [144]
114 May 9, 2007 SoftArtisans Business Intelligence software  United States — [145]
115 June 4, 2007 Engyro Information technology  United States — [146]
116 June 7, 2007 Stratature Master data management  United States — [147]
117 June 29, 2007 Savvis Inc-Data Centers Networking  United States 200,000,000 [148]
118 August 13, 2007 AdECN Ad Exchange  United States 45,000,000 [149]
119 August 13, 2007 aQuantive Digital marketing  United States 6,333,000,000 [150]
120 October 2, 2007 Jellyfish.com Search engine  United States — [151]
121 October 5, 2007 Parlano Enterprise messaging software  United States — [152]
122 October 29, 2007 Global Care Solutions-Assets Assets  Thailand — [153]
123 November 1, 2007 HOB Business Solutions Information technology  Denmark — [154]
124 November 15, 2007 Musiwave Mobile music entertainment  France — [155]
125 December 12, 2007 Multimap.com Mapping  United Kingdom — [156]
126 January 22, 2008 Calista Technologies Software  United States — [157]
127 February 7, 2008 Caligari Corporation Software  United States — [158]
128 February 27, 2008 YaData Software  Israel — [159]
129 March 14, 2008 Rapt Advertising yield management software  United States — [160]
130 March 19, 2008 Komoku Rootkit security software  United States 5,000,000 [161]
131 March 31, 2008 90 Degree Software Business intelligence software  Canada — [162]
132 April 14, 2008 Farecast Online search software  United States 75,000,000 [163]
133 April 15, 2008 Danger Mobile Internet software  United States 500,000,000 [164]
134 April 25, 2008 Fast Search & Transfer Enterprise search[clarification needed]  Norway 1,191,000,000 [165]
135 May 26, 2008 Kidaro Software  United States — [166]
136 June 4, 2008 Quadreon Software  Belgium — [167]
137 June 18, 2008 Navic Networks Management software  United States — [168]
138 June 26, 2008 Mobicomp Mobile applications  Portugal — [169]
139 August 11, 2008 Powerset Semantic Search  United States — [170]
140 September 16, 2008 DATAllegro Data software  United States — [171]
141 September 28, 2008 Greenfield Online Search and e-commerce services  United States 486,000,000 [172]
142 March 1, 2009 3DV Systems Developer of ZCam, a time-of-flight camera  Israel 35,000,000 [173]
143 May 7, 2009 BigPark Video games interactive online gaming  Canada —
144 June 1, 2009 Rosetta Biosoftware Bioinformatics solutions for life science research  United States — [174]
145 September 22, 2009 Interactive Supercomputing Software  United States — [175]
146 December 10, 2009 Opalis Software Software  Canada — [176]
147 February 2, 2010 Sentillion, Inc. Software for the healthcare industry  United States — [177]
148 October 6, 2010 AVIcode, Inc. .Net monitoring technology  United States — [178]
149 October 29, 2010 Canesta, Inc. 3D sensing technology  United States — [179]
150 May 10, 2011 Skype Technologies Telecommunications  Luxembourg 8,500,000,000 [180]
151 June 7, 2011 Prodiance Software  United States — [181][182]
152 October 12, 2011 Twisted Pixel Games Video games  United States — [183]
153 November 22, 2011 Videosurf Video search  United States 100,000,000 [184][185]
154 June 5, 2012 Press Play Video games  Denmark — [186]
155 June 25, 2012 Yammer Social networking  United States 1,200,000,000 [187]
156 July 9, 2012 Perceptive Pixel Multi touch hardware  United States — [188]
157 October 4, 2012 PhoneFactor Two-factor authentication system  United States — [189]
158 October 16, 2012 StorSimple Cloud-storage appliance vendor  United States — [190]
159 October 17, 2012 MarketingPilot Marketing automation firm  United States — [191]
160 January 3, 2013 id8 Group R2 Studios Home automation  United States — [192]
161 February 2, 2013 Pando Networks Peer-to-peer (P2P) media distribution  United States — [193]
162 March 4, 2013 MetricsHub Cloud monitoring  United States — [194]
163 March 19, 2013 Netbreeze Social analytics  Switzerland — [195]
164 June 3, 2013 InRelease Release management  Canada — [196]
165 September 2, 2013 Nokia mobile phones unit Mobile phones, smartphones  Finland 7,200,000,000 [197]
166 October 12, 2013 HLW Software RDP applications  Austria — [198]
167 October 25, 2013 Apiphany API management  United States — [199]
168 January 7, 2014 Parature Customer service software  United States 100,000,000 [200]
169 May 1, 2014 GreenButton Cloud computing  New Zealand — [201]
170 May 1, 2014 Capptain (Mobile) application development  France — [202]
171 July 2, 2014 SyntaxTree Developer tools  France — [203]
172 July 11, 2014 InMage Disaster recovery solutions  India — [204]
173 August 1, 2014 Inception Mobile Inc. Software  Canada — [205]
174 November 6, 2014 Mojang Video games  Sweden 2,500,000,000 [206]
175 November 13, 2014 Aorato Enterprise security & machine learning  Israel — [207]
176 December 2, 2014 Acompli Mobile email apps  United States — [208]
177 December 11, 2014 HockeyApp Mobile beta distribution & crash analytics  Germany — [209]
178 January 20, 2015 Equivio Text analytics service  Israel — [210]
179 January 23, 2015 Revolution Analytics Statistical computing and predictive analytics  United States — [211]
180 February 4, 2015 Sunrise Atelier, Inc. Sunrise Calendar applications  United States 100,000,000 [212]
181 February 12, 2015 N-trig Styli and pen input hardware and software  Israel 200,000,000 [213]
182 March 26, 2015 LiveLoop PowerPoint collaboration  United States — [214]
183 April 14, 2015 Datazen Software, Inc. Mobile business intelligence & data visualization  Canada — [215]
184 June 2, 2015 6 Wunderkinder GmbH Wunderlist to-do list applications  Germany — [216]
185 June 10, 2015 BlueStripe Software Application management  United States — [217]
186 July 16, 2015 FieldOne Systems LLC Enterprise field service  United States — [218]
187 July 19, 2015 Adallom Cloud security  Israel 320,000,000 [219][220]
188 August 3, 2015 Incent Games, LLC Sales-gamification  United States — [221]
189 September 3, 2015 VoloMetrix, Inc. Organisational analytics  United States — [222]
190 September 11, 2015 Double Labs, Inc. Mobile lock screen software  United States — [223]
191 September 28, 2015 Adxstudio Inc. Web portal and application lifecycle management solutions  Canada — [224]
192 October 2, 2015 Havok Video game physics engine  Ireland — [225]
193 November 5, 2015 Mobile Data Labs, Inc. MileIQ, a mileage tracking application  United States — [226]
194 November 9, 2015 Secure Islands Technologies Ltd. Data protection  Israel — [227]
195 December 18, 2015 Metanautix Big data analytics  United States — [228]
196 December 21, 2015 Talko, Inc. Mobile communications  United States — [229]
197 January 13, 2016 Event Zero VoIP Products  Australia — [230]
198 January 19, 2016 Teacher Gaming LLC Education software  Finland — [231]
199 February 3, 2016 SwiftKey Virtual keyboard  United Kingdom 250,000,000 [232][233][234]
200 February 9, 2016 Groove Music discovery  Canada — [235]
201 February 24, 2016 Xamarin Mobile application development  United States — [236][237][238][239]
202 May 3, 2016 Solair Internet of Things platform  Italy — [240]
203 June 16, 2016 Wand Labs Conversation as a service  United States — [241]
204 August 8, 2016 Beam Video game streaming  United States — [242][243]
205 August 20, 2016 Genee AI-powered scheduling assistant service  United States —
206 December 8, 2016 LinkedIn Professional social network  United States 26,200,000,000 [244]
207 January 13, 2017 Maluuba Artificial intelligence  Canada 140,000,000 [245]
208 January 17, 2017 Simplygon 3D graphics optimization  Sweden — [246]
209 April 10, 2017 Deis Container management  United States — [247][248]
210 April 18, 2017 Intentional Software Intentional programming  United States — [249]
211 June 8, 2017 Hexadite Cybersecurity  Israel 100,000,000 [250]
212 June 28, 2017 Cloudyn Cloud business management  Israel 50,000,000 [251]
213 August 15, 2017 Cycle Computing Cloud HPC  United States — [252]
214 October 3, 2017 AltspaceVR Virtual reality  United States — [253]
215 November 7, 2017 SWNG Cinemagraphic photo app  United States — [254][255]
216 January 3, 2018 Avere Systems Data management  United States — [256]
217 January 29, 2018 Playfab Gaming backend service  United States — [257][258]
218 May 18, 2018 Semantic Machines Conversational AI  United States 400,000,000 [259]
219 June 11, 2018 Ninja Theory Video games  United Kingdom 117,000,000 [260]
220 June 11, 2018 Undead Labs Video games  United States — [260]
221 June 11, 2018 Compulsion Games Video games  Canada — [260]
222 June 11, 2018 Playground Games Video games  United Kingdom — [260]
223 June 18, 2018 Flipgrid Education, video discussion platform  United States — [261]
224 June 20, 2018 Bonsai Industrial AI platform  United States — [262]
225 September 13, 2018 Lobe Artificial intelligence  United States — [263]
226 October 9, 2018 Glint Employee engagement  United States 400,000,000 [264][265]
227 October 26, 2018 GitHub Software development and version control platform  United States 7,500,000,000 [266][267][268]
228 November 10, 2018 inXile Entertainment Video games  United States — [269][270]
229 November 10, 2018 Obsidian Entertainment Video games  United States — [269][270]
230 November 14, 2018 XOXCO Conversational AI  United States — [271]
231 November 19, 2018 FSLogix Application provisioning and virtualization  United States — [272]
232 November 30, 2018 Spectrum Social networks for design and development  United States — [273]
233 January 24, 2019 Citus Data Database management  United States — [274]
234 February 4, 2019 DataSense Database management  United States — [275]
235 April 18, 2019 Express Logic Real-time operating systems  United States — [276]
236 May 23, 2019 Dependabot Open source tool  United Kingdom — [277]
237 May 28, 2019 Drawbridge AI & machine learning technology  United States — [278]
238 June 9, 2019 Double Fine Productions Video games  United States — [279]
239 June 17, 2019 Pull Panda Software  United States — [280]
240 July 29, 2019 BlueTalon Data privacy and governance service  United States — [281]
241 August 5, 2019 PromoteIQ Retail e-commerce improvement  United States — [282]
242 August 19, 2019 jClarity Java software optimization  United States — [283][284]
243 September 5, 2019 Movere Cloud migration  United States — [285][286]
244 September 18, 2019 Semmle Code analysis tool  United States — [287]
245 October 21, 2019 Mover File migration  Canada — [288]
246 March 16, 2020 npm Software and JavaScript modules  United States — [289]
247 March 26, 2020 Affirmed Networks 5G Networking  United States 1,350,000,000 [290][291]
248 May 14, 2020 Metaswitch Networks 5G Networking  United Kingdom — [292]
249 May 19, 2020 Softomotive Robotic Process Automation  United Kingdom — [293]
250 June 18, 2020 ADRM Software Data modeling startup  United States — [294]
251 June 22, 2020 CyberX IoT/OT Security  United States 165,000,000 [295]
252 July 7, 2020 Orions Systems Dynamics 365 - SMart vision  United States — [296]
253 September 21, 2020 ZeniMax Media Video games  United States 8,100,000,000 [297]
254 December 2, 2020 Smash.gg Esports  United States — [298]
255 March 16, 2021 The Marsden Group Tech in complex industrial environments  United States — [299]
256 April 12, 2021 Nuance Communications Speech synthesis and speech recognition  United States 19,700,000,000 [300]
257 April 29, 2021 Kinvolk Open source Kubernetes solutions and tools.  Germany — [301]
258 June 2, 2021 ReFirm Labs IoT security and embedded devices  United States — [302]
259 June 30, 2021 AT&T Technology Network Cloud 5G Networking  United States — [303]
260 July 12, 2021 RiskIQ Cybersecurity ransomware  United States 500,000,000 [304]
261 July 22, 2021 CloudKnox Cloud infrastructure entitlement management security  United States — [305]
262 July 28, 2021 Suplari Software  United States — [306]
263 August 10, 2021 Peer5 Peer-to-peer network technology  United States — [307]
264 September 7, 2021 Clipchamp Video-editing software  Australia — [308]
265 September 8, 2021 TakeLessons Education  United States — [309]
266 October 7, 2021 Ally.io Productivity  United States — [310]
267 October 22, 2021 Clear Software Software  United States — [311]
268 October 29, 2021 Two Hat Content moderation  Canada — [312]
269 December 21, 2021 Xandr Digital Media  United States 1,000,000,000 [313][314]
270 January 18, 2022 Activision Blizzard Video games  United States 75,400,000,000 [27][28]
271 February 28, 2022 Oribi Marketing analytics  Israel — [315]
272 March 31, 2022 Minit Process mining software  Netherlands — [316]
273 June 15, 2022 Miburo Cyberthreat analysis and research specializing  United States — [317]
274 December 9, 2022 Lumenisity Optical networking  United Kingdom — [318]
275 January 9, 2023 Fungible composable infrastructure  United States — [319][320]
276 April 5, 2023 Nemesys Games Video games  Hungary — [321]

Stakes

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Date Company Business Country Value (USD) References
June 15, 1989 Santa Cruz Operation[note 3] Wholesale computer software  United States — [322]
March 18, 1991 Dorling Kindersley[note 4] Reference books  United Kingdom 14,340,000 [323]
June 21, 1994 Stac Electronics Data compression software  United States 39,900,000 [324]
January 19, 1995 UUNet Internet service provider  United States — [325]
May 30, 1995 Wang Laboratories Software consulting  United States 90,000,000 [326]
October 12, 1995 Individual On-line information retrieval  United States — [327]
April 1, 1996 Mobile Telecom Technologies[note 5] Cellular telephones  United States 25,000,000 [328]
April 22, 1996 Helicon Publishing Electronic books  United States — [329]
September 9, 1996 SingleTrac Video games  United States — [330]
October 1, 1996 WebTV Networks Internet service provider  United States — [331]
October 28, 1996 VDOnet Internet services  United States — [332]
February 3, 1997 CMGI[note 6] Direct mail  United States 20,000,000 [333]
February 18, 1997 Digital Anvil Video games  United States — [334]
March 3, 1997 Interse Internet software  United States — [335]
June 30, 1997 Comcast[note 7] Cable television  United States 1,000,000,000 [336]
August 6, 1997 Apple Inc.[note 8] Personal computers  United States 150,000,000 [337]
August 19, 1997 Progressive Networks[note 9] Internet software  United States 30,000,000 [338]
September 11, 1997 Lernout & Hauspie Speech[note 10] Multilingual software  Belgium 45,000,000 [339]
September 23, 1997 E-Stamp[note 11] Internet software  United States — [340]
March 4, 1998 General Magic Community software  United States 6,000,000 [341]
March 6, 1998 WavePhore[note 12] Radio and television equipment  United States — [342]
June 18, 1998 Pluto Technologies Network and storage  United States — [343]
December 14, 1998 Qwest Communications[note 13] Telecommunications  United States 200,000,000 [344]
January 6, 1999 SkyTel Communications[note 14] Cellular telephones  United States — [345]
January 31, 1999 United Pan-Europe Comm NV[note 15] Broadband communities  Netherlands 300,000,000 [346]
February 1, 1999 NTL[note 16] Communications  United Kingdom 500,000,000 [347]
February 2, 1999 Banyan[note 17] Software  United States 10,000,000 [348]
March 2, 1999 Dialogic Computer telephony  United States 24,200,000 [349]
March 8, 1999 Reciprocal Copyright protection  United States — [350]
April 1, 1999 TV Cabo Portugal SA Cable television  Portugal 38,600,000 [351]
April 10, 1999 Lernout & Hauspie Speech Multilingual software  Belgium 15,000,000 [352]
June 8, 1999 Inprise Computer software  United States 125,000,000 [353]
June 8, 1999 NaviSite[note 18] Internet service provider  United States — [354]
June 19, 1999 AT&T[note 19] Telecommunications  United States 5,000,000,000 [355]
June 22, 1999 Concentric Network IP-based networks  United States 50,000,000 [356]
July 5, 1999 WebMD Web-based health information  United States 250,000,000 [357]
August 20, 1999 Tuttle Decision Systems Mortgage pricing information  United States — [358]
August 25, 1999 Rogers Communications Radio and television stations  Canada 405,120,000 [359]
December 3, 1999 Korea Thrunet[note 20] Internet service provider  South Korea 36,000,000 [360]
December 28, 1999 Globo Cabo[note 21] Cable television  Brazil 126,000,000 [361]
December 30, 1999 Commtouch Software[note 22] Community security software  Israel 20,000,000 [362]
December 31, 1999 Gigamedia[note 23] Internet service provider  Taiwan 31,470,000 [363]
January 24, 2000 Intertainer Interactive systems  United States 56,000,000 [364]
January 24, 2000 VerticalNet[note 24] Management solutions  United States 100,000,000 [365]
February 23, 2000 BroadBand Office Communication  United States 25,000,000 [366]
March 2, 2000 Ecoss[note 25] Computer programming  Japan 46,000 [367]
March 13, 2000 RealNames[note 26] Internet navigation  United States — [368]
March 14, 2000 MEASAT Broadcast Network[note 27] Television broadcasting  Malaysia 100,000,000 [369]
April 14, 2000 Best Buy Retail stores  United States 200,000,000 [370]
July 7, 2000 Telewest Communications[note 28] Cable television  United States 2,263,000,000 [371]
July 13, 2000 Blixer Net Online telecommunications  Italy — [372]
August 4, 2000 CAIS Internet Internet access  United States 40,000,000 [373]
October 2, 2000 Corel Corporation[note 29] Software  Canada 89,370,000 [374]
November 29, 2000 Chyron Corporation[note 30] Digital graphics  United States 6,000,000 [375]
February 12, 2001 Audible.com Online audio retail  United States 10,000,000 [376]
July 23, 2001 Sendo[note 31] Mobile handset  United Kingdom — [377]
February 14, 2002 USA Networks[note 32] Television stations  United States — [378]
November 3, 2005 ByteTaxi Software  United States — [379]
October 24, 2007 Facebook[note 33] Social network  United States 240,000,000 [380]
April 8, 2008 OKWave[note 34] On-line community site  Japan 2,515,000 [381]
June 12, 2008 Zignals[note 35] Online trading  Ireland — [382]
April 7, 2011 Toyota Media Service Corp[note 36] Web marketing services  Japan — [383]
February 7, 2012 24/7[note 37] Outsourcing and call center services  United States — [384]
April 30, 2012 Barnes & Noble[note 38] Book retailer  United States 605,000,000 [385]
October 9, 2018 Grab Ride-hailing firm  Singapore — [386]
February 4, 2019 Databricks Software for processing large-scale data in public clouds  United States — [387]
August 20, 2021 Oyo Rooms Hospitality  India 5,000,000 [388]
October 3, 2022 WeMade Entertainment Video games and blockchain  South Korea — [389]
December 12, 2022 London Stock Exchange Group[note 39] Financial services  United Kingdom 2,000,000,000 [390]

Divestitures

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Date Acquirer Target company Target business Acquirer country Value (USD) References
March 31, 1989 Steve Ballmer Microsoft[note 40] Wholesale computer software  United States 46,200,000 [391]
June 17, 1992 Microsoft Microsoft[note 41] Wholesale computer software  United States 63,750,000 [392]
July 6, 1994 Microsoft Microsoft[note 42] Wholesale computer software  United States 348,000,000 [393]
December 22, 1994 TCI Technology Ventures MSN[note 43] Internet service provider  United States 125,000,000 [394]
November 15, 1996 Microsoft MSN[note 44] Internet service provider  United States 125,000,000 [395]
December 19, 1996 Proginet TransAccess Software  United States 1,740,000 [396]
August 3, 1998 Avid Technology Softimage 3-D visualization software  Canada 284,295,000 [397]
September 21, 1999 Ticketmaster Online-CitySearch MSN Sidewalk Internet city guide  United States 340,000,000 [398]
February 24, 2000 Electronic Arts DreamWorks Interactive Video games  United States — [399]
August 10, 2000 Envoy Communications Sage Information Consultants Consulting  Canada 23,730,000 [400]
September 1, 2000 Jupiter Telecommunications Titus Communications Cable television  Japan — [401]
December 31, 2000 Technology Crossover Ventures Expedia, Inc.[note 45] Online travel  United States 50,000,000 [402]
June 26, 2001 CNBC MSN MoneyCentral Financial information  United States — [403]
February 5, 2002 USA Networks Expedia, Inc. Online travel  United States 1,372,000,000 [404]
July 26, 2002 Liberty Media Chofu CATV Cable television  Japan 16,000,000 [405]
August 12, 2002 Agency.com KPE Inc-Certain Assets —  United States — [406]
February 22, 2003 The Reynolds and Reynolds Company MSN Autos-Dealerpoint Business Online auto retail  United States — [407]
May 29, 2003 Telewest 22.98% IDT —  United Kingdom 5,000,000 [408]
October 31, 2003 Perri Croshaw HWW Ltd-Women's Money Magazine Magazines  Australia — [409]
November 4, 2003 Northgate Information Solutions PWA Group Software  United Kingdom 7,052,000 [410]
October 2004 Take-Two Interactive Indie Games Video games  United States —
January 14, 2005 The Washington Post Company Slate Online magazine  United States — [411]
February 28, 2005 Ubisoft Entertainment Microsoft Games- Sports Games Video games  France — [412]
August 17, 2006 Microsoft Microsoft[note 46] Wholesale computer software  United States 20,000,000,000 [413]
May 11, 2007 MacDonald Dettwiler Vexcel Canada Mapping software  United States — [414]
September 22, 2008 Microsoft Microsoft[note 47] Wholesale computer software  United States 36,200,000,000 [415]
August 9, 2009 Publicis Groupe Razorfish Advertising agency  France 530,000,000 —
May 25, 2010 Phase One Expression Media Digital media asset management software  Denmark — [416]
October 16, 2011 Orion Health Asia Pacific of New Zealand Microsoft-HIS Software (Hospital Information System Software) Hospital information systems  New Zealand — [417]
March 19, 2012 LeGuide.com SA Ciao GmbH Provider of online shopping services  France — [418]
September 5, 2013 Ericsson Microsoft Mediaroom End-to-end video platform  Sweden — [419]
February 2013 Meta Platforms Atlas Solutions Online advertising  United States —
December 18, 2014 Line Corporation (Naver) MixRadio Online music streaming  Japan — [420]
June 30, 2015 Uber Street-mapping data Online maps  United States — [421]
June 30, 2015 AOL (Verizon) Display ads Online advertising  United States — [422]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ VGA-Animation Software Div was acquired from VGA.
  2. ^ Panorama Software Sys-On-Line was acquired from Panorama Software.
  3. ^ Microsoft acquired an interest representing less than 20% of Santa Cruz Operation.
  4. ^ Microsoft acquired a 26% stake in Dorling Kindersley.
  5. ^ Microsoft acquired a 2.5% stake in Mobile Telecom Technologies.
  6. ^ Microsoft acquired a 4.9% stake in CMGI.
  7. ^ Microsoft acquired an 11.5% stake in Comcast.
  8. ^ Microsoft acquired a 5% stake in Apple Inc.
  9. ^ Microsoft acquired a 10% in Progressive Networks.
  10. ^ Microsoft acquired an 8% stake in Lernout & Hauspie Speech.
  11. ^ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in E-Stamp.
  12. ^ Microsoft acquired a 2.88% stake in WavePhore.
  13. ^ Microsoft acquired a 1.32% stake in Qwest Communications.
  14. ^ Microsoft acquired a 5.7% stake in SkyTel Communications.
  15. ^ Microsoft acquired a 7.9% stake in United Pan-Europe Comm NV.
  16. ^ Microsoft acquired a 5.25% stake in NTL.
  17. ^ Microsoft acquired a 7.5% stake in Banyan.
  18. ^ Microsoft acquired a 4.4% stake in NaviSite.
  19. ^ Microsoft acquired a 3% stake in AT&T.
  20. ^ Microsoft acquired a 6% stake in Korea Thrunet.
  21. ^ Microsoft acquired an 11.5% stake in Globo Cabo.
  22. ^ Microsoft acquired a 5.6% stake in CommTouch Software.
  23. ^ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in Gigamedia.
  24. ^ Microsoft acquired a 1.35% stake in VerticalNet.
  25. ^ Microsoft acquired a 5% stake in Ecoss.
  26. ^ Microsoft acquired a 20% stake in RealNames.
  27. ^ Microsoft acquired a 9% stake in MEASAT Broadcast Network.
  28. ^ Microsoft acquired 22.98% of Telewest Communications.
  29. ^ Microsoft acquired 24 million preferred shares of Corel Corporation.
  30. ^ Microsoft acquired an 8.73% stake in Chyron Corporation.
  31. ^ Microsoft acquired a 10% stake in Sendo.
  32. ^ Microsoft acquired a 15.4% stake in USA Networks.
  33. ^ Microsoft acquired a 1.6% stake in Facebook.
  34. ^ Microsoft acquired a 10.52% stake in OKWave.
  35. ^ Microsoft acquired a 15% stake in Zignals.
  36. ^ Microsoft acquires minority stake in Toyota Media Service Corp
  37. ^ Microsoft acquires minority stake in 24/7
  38. ^ Microsoft acquires a 17.6% stake in Newco
  39. ^ Microsoft acquired a 4% stake in London Stock Exchange Group
  40. ^ Steve Ballmer acquired 945,000 Microsoft shares.
  41. ^ Microsoft repurchased 1.9% of Microsoft shares.
  42. ^ Microsoft repurchased 3% of Microsoft's common stock.
  43. ^ TCI Technology Ventures acquired 20% of MSN.
  44. ^ Microsoft acquired the remaining 20% stake that it did not already own in MSN from Tele-Communications Inc.
  45. ^ Technology Crossover Ventures has acquired 6% of Expedia, Inc.
  46. ^ Microsoft acquired 7.92% of its own common stock outstanding.
  47. ^ Microsoft repurchased 7.92% of its common stock outstanding.

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