Most expensives Tech acquisitions ever 01:06 BT 0 DOWNLOAD PDF Acquisitions List Owner Company Sold Company Price Money Verizon Yahoo's Internet business $4.8 billion Microsoft LinkedIn $26.2 billion Dell EMC $67 billion Facebook WhatsApp $22 billion HewlettPackard Compaq $18.6 billion Google Motorola $12.5 billion Lenovo Motorola from google $2.91 billion HewlettPackard Autonomy $10.24 billion Microsoft Skype $8.56 billion Oracle Sun Microsystems $7.4 billion Microsoft Nokia $7.2 billion Google Nest Labs $3.2 billion Apple Beats Music $3 billion Google YouTube $1.65 billion Facebook Oculus VR $2 billion eBay PayPal $1.5 billion Yahoo Tumblr $1.1 billion Facebook Instagram $1 billion