{"id":80481,"date":"2022-01-19T01:56:36","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=80481"},"modified":"2022-01-19T01:56:36","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T06:56:36","slug":"microsoft-sets-record-for-biggest-tech-deal-ever-topping-dell-emc-merger-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2022\/microsoft-sets-record-for-biggest-tech-deal-ever-topping-dell-emc-merger-in-2016.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft sets record for biggest tech deal ever, topping Dell-EMC merger in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(CNBC) <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/MSFT\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft<\/a> tried to set a record in 2008, when then-CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/steve-ballmer\/\">Steve Ballmer<\/a> pursued plans to buy Yahoo for about <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/2007\/05\/microsoft-looki\/\" target=\"_blank\">$50 billion<\/a>. It would have been the biggest U.S. tech deal ever, topping JDS Uniphase\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/archives\/la-xpm-2000-jul-11-fi-51010-story.html\" target=\"_blank\">$41 billion purchase<\/a> of SDL in 2000.On Tuesday, Microsoft said it\u2019s buying video game publisher <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/quotes\/ATVI\" target=\"_blank\">Activision Blizzard<\/a> for almost $69 billion, a price that would narrowly eclipse the richest U.S. tech deal in history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2022\/01\/18\/biggest-tech-deal-ever-microsoft-activision-set-69-billion-record.html\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(CNBC) Microsoft tried to set a record in 2008, when then-CEO Steve Ballmer pursued plans to buy Yahoo for about $50 billion. It would have been the biggest U.S. tech deal ever, topping JDS Uniphase\u2019s $41 billion purchase of SDL [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80482,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80481\/revisions\/80482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}