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From Microsoft-Activision to Musk's Twitter buyout: Largest tech acquisitions of all time

Microsoft acquiring gaming company Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion has been recorded as the largest tech deal of all time. Elon Musk's recent purchase of Twitter falls at the third rank. Here's a look at the largest tech acquisitions of all time, with some details on each of them

By Samidha Jain, Forbes India Staff

Published: Apr 29, 2022 05:12:47 PM IST

Updated: Apr 29, 2022 06:42:21 PM IST

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Samidha graduated with a bachelor’s in mass media from Sophia College, Mumbai, right before joining Forbes India, where she writes about various startups across industries, and also works on News by Numbers–a way of news story-telling through infographics. She is also part of the web team which oversees social media and organizes various annual events for the publication. Samidha is a film buff and enjoys all kinds of cinema–all the way from cringy bollywood films to those of Tarkovsky.

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