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Title: Chart: Acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook Post by: HCK on March 10, 2014, 02:00:04 pm Chart: Acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook
The big orange circle is Google's Motorola. The big blue one is Facebook's WhatsApp. <p></p> <p>FORTUNE -- I can't vouch for the accuracy of the data in this infographic, created by business insurance provider Simply Business and posted Friday on TechCrunch, but even if it's a little off it gives you a good feel for how Apple's (AAPL) relatively small, targeted acquisitions compare with such multibillion dollar deals as Google (GOOG) buying Motorola ($12.5 MORE (http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/07/apple-aquisitions-whatsapp-facebook/)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tech.fortune.cnn.com&blog=8466345&post=135766&subd=fortunebrainstormtech&ref=&feed=1" width="1" height="1" /><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~4/hyv0AE1Rth8" height="1" width="1"/> Source: Chart: Acquisitions by Apple, Amazon, Google, Yahoo, Facebook (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/fortuneapple20/~3/hyv0AE1Rth8/http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/07/apple-aquisitions-whatsapp-facebook/#commentshttp://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2014/03/07/apple-aquisitions-whatsapp-facebook/feed/atom/) |