12 most mindblowing acquisitions of our time

A blockbuster exit for the popular and elegant mobile photo-sharing service.

Ending months of speculation, the online auction giant announces a stock deal to buy the leading online payments company. A CNET article by Margaret Kane, Staff Writer. Published on July 8, 2002 8:00 AM PDT.

On the 10th anniversary of the merger, the executives responsible reflect on why they did it and why it failed.

Larry Ellision finally won one of the most hostile acquisition to date.

Oil powerhouses Exxon Corp. and Mobil Corp. completed their $81 billion merger Tuesday, shortly after the U.S. government approved the deal following a promise the two would sell more than 2,400 stations across the country.

BlackRock Inc. completed its acquisition of Barclays Global Investors for $15.2 billion in cash and stock to become the world's biggest asset manager.

This has to be on the list as it was actually Google's biggest acquisition to date, when they acquired Youtube. Youtube is embedded in our culture and this perhaps is the biggest online acquisition ever. To date, Youtube global traffic rank is #3.....uh I would say that that is not bad huh?

After the stock swap in 1998, the combined entity had almost $700B in assets, making it the largest financial institution in the world

Unpicking the Autonomy acquisition reveals some interesting nuggets that better explain HP’s decision to acquire. This analysis paints a positiv