US IT industry's costly mergers and acquisitions

According to foreign media reports, the U.S. well-known Science and technology blog site Silicon Alley Insider today to the U.S. technology industry 11 losses of heavy mergers and acquisitions, including news group acquisition of MySpace, AOL acquisition of British social networking sites Bebo, and so on. Because of the fast-changing technology industry, many of the past's seemingly wise decisions now look foolish.

Here are 11 of the most costly mergers and acquisitions in the US tech industry:

1. News Corp Buys MySpace

Loss: USD 530 million

When News Corp spent 580 million of billions of dollars on MySpace, it was seen as a very wise decision, a bold attempt by a veteran media firm. But with MySpace's internal management problems, and Facebook's emergence, MySpace has stopped growing and the number of users has plummeted. News Corp, if Lucky, could sell MySpace at 50 million dollars.

2. AOL buys Bebo

Loss: USD 840 million

AOL appears on the list more than once. If News Corp's acquisition of MySpace has a good start, it's just a mistake, then it doesn't know how to explain AOL's takeover of Bebo. AOL bought Bebo 850 million dollars and sold it for 10 million dollars.

3. Google buys Dodgeball

Loss: 1 billion dollars or more

Dodgeball is a popular "check-in" application that was forced to close after being acquired by Google. Dennis Crowley, founder of Dodgeball, left Google and created another start-up company, Foursquare, which is Dodgeball 2.0. It is reported that the Foursquare valuation has been as high as 500 million U.S. dollars, if Google wants to obtain Foursquare, it is expected to spend many times the price. And it depends on Crowley.

4. Google buys Jaiku

Loss: 2 billion dollars or more

Remember Jaiku? The microblogging service has been growing faster than Twitter. To compete with Twitter, Google bought Jaiku in October 2007 and then shut it down. If Google hadn't shut down Jaiku, it might have been able to compete with Twitter. Twitter, which then lost its rivals, was fast ahead in 2008 years, and the site is now valued at $4 billion trillion, assuming Jaiku only half of Twitter, then Google loses 2 billion of billions of dollars.

5. Telefonica Acquisition Lycos

Loss: USD 5.4 billion

Lycos was once in the ascendant, almost as much as Yahoo. Sold to Telefonica at the peak of the dotcom bubble at $5.4 billion trillion, and only a few years later the million-dollar price was sold.

6. Yahoo buys broadcast.com

Loss: USD 5.7 billion

Broadcast.com was once seen as an early YouTube, but there were not many people watching online video. Can only say that Yahoo is unlucky.

7.RealNetworks Negative ipod originality

Loss: USD billions of

Many people think that the idea of Apple's ipod comes from Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO, which was proposed by independent advisor Tony Fadell, which is really cool. He marketed the idea to RealNetworks, but was rejected. Then he found the apple and the story behind it was known.

8. Yahoo missed the acquisition of Facebook

Loss: 50 billion dollars or more

After Google's takeover of YouTube, Yahoo believes it should also come up with a great "2.0" takeover. Then Yahoo CEO Semel and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg came together, hoping to buy Facebook for 1 billion dollars. But the next day Yahoo's share price suffered a tumble, semel that he could not afford it. Facebook is now one of the world's biggest companies. But if Facebook is bought by Yahoo, it may not have today's results.

9. Yahoo did not buy Google

Loss: USD 170 billion

Google has repeatedly tried to sell itself to Yahoo, a 3 billion-dollar time. But until Google becomes incredibly powerful, many people still think that internet search is nothing. Today, Google's market capitalisation has reached about $170 billion trillion.

AOL's marriage to Time Warner

Loss: USD 198 billion

It could be the worst-hit deal in history, at its peak, when AOL's market capitalisation reached $240 billion trillion. Today, Time Warner is worth about $40 billion trillion, and AOL is about 2 billion dollars.

11.IBM access to Microsoft software non-exclusive license

Loss: USD 220 billion

When IBM wants to launch a personal computer, it values hardware more than software. Microsoft also believes that hardware can be commercialized, and software cannot. So when IBM asked Microsoft to provide an operating system for it, Microsoft wanted to retain its rights to the operating system and authorize other vendors. IBM agrees. Microsoft now has a market value of $220 billion trillion.