Recently world bank has stated that only 18 countries on the globe have a GDP of more than $ 500 billion and if Apple is considered as a country, then it would be 18th largest country with its market cap value of $ 602 billion.
By having a huge GDP, some top tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Amazon have acquired several other small companies.
The acquisitions of these top 5 tech companies are clearly listed in the infographic:
key acquisitions of Microsoft:
Skype - $ 8.5 million
Navision Software - $ 1.3 billion
Yammer - $ 1.2 billion
Visio - $ 1.4 billion
aQuantative - $ 6.3 billion
key acquisitions of Apple:
Next - $ 404 million
Pasemi - $ 278 million
Intrinsity - $ 121 million
Siri - $ 200 million
lala.com - $ 17 million
Key acquisitions of Amazon:
Zappos.com - $ 1.2 billion
Kiva Systems - $ 775 million
Audible.com - $ 300 million
IMDb - $ 55 million
Alexa - $ 645 million