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Infographic: Every Microsoft Acquisition Since 1986
16 Jul 2025 01:38 GMT
Q2 1986
🇺🇸 Dynamical Systems Research
Operating systems
Q3 1987
🇺🇸 Forethought, Inc.
Computer software
Q1 1991
🇨🇦 Consumers Software
Software
Q2 1992
🇺🇸 Fox Software
PC database software
Q1 1994
🇨🇦 Softimage
Wholesale 3-D visualization software
Q3 1994
🇺🇸 …
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Microsoft PR alum Tom Phillips launches Upstream Communications
14 May 2025 23:56 GMT
… and government cloud comms at Microsoft. He joined the company … aQuantive, for $6 billion. At the time of the deal, Microsoft’ … s biggest at the time, Phillips was aQuantive’s VP … During his 18 years at Microsoft, Phillips served as the company …
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Why Microsoft is feeling blissful at 50
04 Apr 2025 17:49 GMT
… computing product Azure. But Microsoft's profit growth … of ad tech platforms aQuantive to compete with Google’ … quite-acquisition that really got Microsoft its groundbreaker’s glitz … the next computing frontier, Microsoft recently claimed to have created …
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After Earnings, Is Microsoft Stock a Buy, a Sell, or Fairly Valued?
05 Feb 2025 13:25 GMT
… AI and consistently good execution.
Microsoft Stock Price
Source: Morningstar … moat.
Financial Strength
We believe Microsoft enjoys excellent financial strength because … profile flops, including Nokia and aQuantive. The LinkedIn acquisition was expensive …
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After launching aQuantive and Pioneer Square Labs, Mike Galgon backs a different kind of entrepreneur
31 Jul 2024 16:05 GMT
… strategy officer of aQuantive, the online advertising giant that Microsoft bought for … operating at a level neither aQuantive nor PSL “could come even … . He drew a comparison to aQuantive’s approach to meticulously documenting …
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Business lessons from Windows Vista: Insights from a forgotten trove of internal Microsoft emails
23 Jul 2024 17:16 GMT
… -forgotten archive of internal Microsoft emails, notes, and … the operating system.
Microsoft lowered the graphics requirements … MSN, Xbox, Tablet PCs, aQuantive, Bing, Azure, Windows Phone … the GeekWire Podcast.
Internal Microsoft emails – Windows Vista by …
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Going Into Earnings, Is Microsoft Stock a Buy, a Sell, or Fairly Valued?
17 Jul 2024 18:48 GMT
… GitHub, Visual Studio, Microsoft Intelligent Data Platform, Microsoft Fabric, and Windows Server … rating.
Financial Strength
We believe Microsoft enjoys excellent financial strength, … profile flops, including Nokia and aQuantive. The LinkedIn acquisition was …
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Satya Nadella's first decade as Microsoft CEO was defined by cloud. What's next?
04 Feb 2024 14:36 GMT
… to so many Microsoft products. And Microsoft, along with … Microsoft's top line. Ballmer was not so lucky. His aQuantive … and Nokia deals were disastrous.
More recently, Nadella helped Microsoft …
In regulatory filings, Microsoft calls OpenAI " …
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Microsoft emerges victorious from OpenAI meltdown with Sam Altman leading its new AI research team
20 Nov 2023 18:56 GMT
… Brockman will be joining Microsoft, the Redmond company … 2023
Nadella simultaneously expressed Microsoft’s commitment to its … identities and cultures within Microsoft, including GitHub, Mojang Studios … , he did not mention aQuantive or Nokia.
Seriously, there …
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Microsoft finally bought Activision Blizzard for $69 billion
14 Oct 2023 15:04 GMT
… its acquisition of Activision Blizzard
Microsoft’s intention to acquire Activision … billion
aQuantive: 6.3 billion dollars
Mojang (Minecraft): $2.5 billion
Microsoft … acquisition, Brad Smith, President of Microsoft, commented: “Our significant investment to …