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Re:Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire MGM for about... by kongolongo on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @01:55PM (#27198472)
Zappos and Zoox were also both $1 billion acquisitions by Amazon

Why only consider acquisitions over $1 billion though? They have quite a few $250 million+ acquisitions that were pretty big or key players in their respective niches.

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Re:Amazon is reportedly negotiating to acquire MGM for about... by xkjkls on Tuesday May 18, 2021 @02:02PM (#27198582)
Because a billion is a nice round number, and if you compare to other companies the same size, they've had a remarkably small number of acquisitions.

Google has had Youtube, DoubleClick, Android, Motorola, Nest, HTC, Nest, Looker, Fitbit, Waze... and that's just what I remember.

Facebook has had at least Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus, but they've been around close to two decades less.

For a company of Amazon's scale, it's lack of acquisitions is relatively surprising.

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