Top ten failed deals in technology industry: AOL Time Warner merger worst

Lead: Google announced a 12.5 billion-dollar takeover of Motorola Mobility, the deal is not a win is unclear.　　The United States Online (AOL) and Time Warner's marriage topped the list in Wednesday, when BusinessInsider, the US technology blog, named the top ten failed trades in the technology industry. The following is a specific list: 1.AOL Merge with Time Warner is there a worse deal?　　AOL and Time Warner's shareholders lost billions of of billions of dollars in the deal, while two companies also suffered. 2.Terra NX 12.5 billion dollar acquisition Lycos in 2000, the Spanish Telecoms network division Terra NX bought Lycos for 12.5 billion dollars, all in the form of stock.　　Four years later, it will sell Lycos at a price of $95 million. 3.at&t 7 billion-dollar acquisition of NCR in 1991, At&t spent 7 billion dollars to complete a hostile takeover of NCR, in an attempt to enter the PC market.　　But the strategy didn't work, and At&t later sold NCR at a price of 4 billion dollars. 4. The Yahoo 5 billion dollar acquisition of Broadcast.com StockTwits co-founder Howard Linderson (Howard Lindzon) joked that the deal was worse than AOL's merger with Time Warner because Cuban (Mark Cuban) Therefore, the money to buy the Mavericks, ultimately make it the focus of the United States.　　Aside from this, this is still a stupid deal in the dotcom boom. 5. Microsoft's 6 billion dollar acquisition of AQuantive after Google bought DoubleClick, Microsoft to continue to exert pressure on Google, announced a 6 billion-dollar price acquisition of advertising software and service provider aquantive. It was a very failed deal.　　AQuantive executives left Microsoft two years after the deal was completed, and AQuantive's technology was abandoned. 6. Cisco's 590 million dollar acquisition of Pure Digital Cisco bought the digital camera maker Pure Digital in 2009, and the flip camera maker's valuation was at its peak. Since then, since almost every smartphone has integrated high-definition cameras, the flip has long been useless.　　This may also be why Cisco closed the Flip Business unit early this year. 7. Microsoft's 500 Million dollar acquisition danger Microsoft bought mobile software and service provider danger at a price of $500 million. Microsoft had planned to integrate danger into its mobile business, but Microsoft's plans were frustrated by the fact that most of the key staff then left danger. The final result of the acquisition is Kin smartphone, which buys a company for a smartphone,Microsoft is clearly losing its size. 8.eBay 2.6 billion-dollar takeover of Skype for some time, EBay's takeover of Skype has been considered one of the worst deals.　　The deal is bad for two companies, but Microsoft now bids 8 billion dollars for Skype, which is not entirely a disaster for ebay given its 30% stake, but it is a big mistake that has dragged ebay and tied Skype on the other hand. 9.at&t 100 million U.S. dollars to buy TCI At&t once believed that the purchase of 100 million U.S. dollars for cable TV operators TCI, can help them achieve diversification goals. But the idea is clearly wrong.　　After a few years, At&t split the TCI and then sold cable assets. 10. Hewlett-Packard 1.2 billion dollar acquisition palm although it is too early to conclude that the deal should not be listed, but HP's decision to buy palm 1.2 billion dollars is clearly wrong. It is reported that Palm to challenge the ipad launched the first product due to limited sales, Best Buy plan to return all the surplus products palm.　　The Palm platform is too small to be mentioned in the scramble for smartphone market share. The technology industry's most successful deal with Apple, 429 million dollars, bought next Apple to buy a 429 million dollar takeover of Steve Jobs's software company next. The deal has obviously paid off.　　Apple has become the world's most valuable technology company and has recently taken over the throne of the world's highest-value company with Exxon Mobil. Google's 50 million dollar acquisition of Android Google bought android,android at 50 million dollars is now the world's largest smartphone operating platform, the success of the deal is indisputable. (Xuan Chen)