Top Ten worst internet mergers and acquisitions

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Mergers and acquisitions are a way for companies to boost their strength or change their market strategy, but not every merger brings good luck, and many companies do not achieve the desired goal of mergers and acquisitions. Now let's look at the history of mergers and acquisitions in the web, and see who's "miscalculated" in this game.

What kind of merger is a failure? First of all, it must be expensive, 50 million dollars in your I think maybe a lot, but Google's eyes may be just a few cents, and second, the company has not much to contribute, especially in the long term.

10, Microsoft-Hotmail

Some people may not know that Hotmail is Microsoft 1998 years to spend 400 million dollars of the company, it as a Microsoft Mail system, it does not seem to attract enough attention, for most people, it means that a MSN account, and does not touch the wishful thinking of Microsoft network communication.

09, Ebay-skype

Ebay spent 2.6 billion dollars on Skype in September 2005, and although Skype offers easy phone calls, there are few people who can connect Skype to ebay. ebay does not seem to have any development plans for Skype-how to prove the value of those dollars, and how to link it to the core auction business.

08, Cnet-mysimon

Mysimon's buyer is cnet,1999 year, 700 million dollars. Mysimon is a price comparison site that CNET can use to break into the technology market, and at the time it was a good note. At the moment, however, CNET seems to have no idea what to do to play the role of Mysimon, so the birds have flown away, the sky leaves only traces of wings. Today, more and better price comparison engines have been available, first, not necessarily strong.

07, Excite@Home-BlueMountain.com

Bluemountain.com was bought in 1999 by Excite@Home, at a cost of 780 million dollars. Bluemountain.com is an electronic greeting card site, but now it is heard, 780 million dollars Niniuruhai.

06. Terra Networks-lycos

Lycos's new owner is Terra Networks,2000 's 4.6 billion-dollar price transfer over the years. After that, there is no further information about Terra that has any effect. May be doomed to the beginning of failure, March 2000, the agreed transaction price is 12.5 billion, October when the acquisition was completed, the price is still less than the original 50%, because two companies have a sharp decline in stocks. Terra may have been in deep pockets, and this acquisition is likely to empty its purse, no further.

05, Aol-netscape

AOL bought Netscape at 4.2 billion dollars in 1998, and it looked like a charitable act, and it should be known that Netscape was suppressed by Microsoft's policy of free bundling ie. AOL clearly does not have any idea and behavior to develop Netscape, then the network pioneer, now has become a history.

04, Yahoo-GeoCities

Geocities was bought by Yahoo, which was in 1999, and it was worth 3.56 billion dollars. But when was the last time people visited Geocities? Maybe no one remembers. Soon after the acquisition, Geocities also lost its vitality, it may have become a MySpace, but now can only exclaiming.

03. @Home-excite

In 1999, @Home paid 6.7 billion dollars to get excite,excite on the network has a glorious history, many times into the forefront of the industry rankings, and after the acquisition of 1.5, the combination of bankruptcy, from the industry disappeared.

02, Time Warner-AOL

When the acquisition of others, AOL did not think that they will have this day. Of course this is not a takeover, just a merger. Six years ago, the two giants were married, and six years later, rumors of a split and a sale are continuing. Obviously, the effect of the merger of two companies is not ideal, in addition to mismanagement, AOL is also due to the loss of network advertising revenue, Time Warner has been dragged into the water. This consolidation is thus referred to by the industry as the most failed consolidation paradigm.

01, Yahoo-broadcast.com

Broadcast's customer is Yahoo, the price of 500 million dollars, time 1999 years. Yahoo paid a "poll tax" of up to 710 dollars per user. But why is it worse than "the most failed merger in history"? One person: Mark Coux class. Do you remember the millionaire who put the word "fool to buy YouTube"? He was broadcast's former owner. It was this acquisition that made Cuban have the money to buy the Dallas Mavericks-it was unforgivable! (A joke ~)

This is the top ten most failed network mergers and acquisitions, do you think there are any events to make the list?