5 Biggest Tech Acquisitions That May Never Be Topped

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1. eBay’s Acquisition of PayPal

In August 2002, eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) announced its plans to acquire PayPal, which had gone public earlier that year. PayPal was founded in 1998 by tech luminary Peter Thiel, along with Max Levchin, Luke Nosek and Ken Howery. eBay paid $1.5 billion for the company that had come up with a disruptive idea and business model based on online payments. eBay was the leading auctions and e-commerce website in 2002, and most of the payments made by buyers and sellers on eBay’s websites was done via PayPal. A whopping 61% of PayPal’s transactions came from eBay in 2002. In July 2015, eBay Inc (NASDAQ:EBAY) set PayPal free again, as a separate publicly-traded company amid pressure from activist investor Carl Icahn. As of January 2016, Paypal Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PYPL) has 179 million active accounts and is currently valued at nearly $50 billion

That being said, these were the biggest tech acquisitions that may never be topped. 

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Biggest Tech Acquisitions That May Never Be Topped

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