eMarketer. List of mergers and acquisitions by Microsoft. The company's initial public offering was held on March 14, 1986. The stock, which eventually closed at US$27.75 a share, peaked at $29.25 a share shortly after the market opened for trading. After the offering, Microsoft had a market capitalization of $519.777 million.[1] Microsoft has subsequently acquired over 225 companies, purchased stakes in 64 companies, and made 25 divestments. Of the companies that Microsoft has acquired, 107 were based in the United States. Microsoft has not released financial details for most of these mergers and acquisitions. Since Microsoft's first acquisition in 1986, it has purchased an average of six companies a year. Microsoft has also purchased several stakes valued at more than a billion dollars. Key acquisitions[edit] In 1999, Microsoft been reported discussing buyout of Nintendo.
Microsoft acquired Seattle-based Visio Corporation on January 7, 2000, for $1.375 billion. On July 12, 2002, Microsoft purchased Navision for $1.33 billion. Stakes[edit] MSFT Annual Report 2011. Can Microsoft Improve its Search Revenues with Facebook? Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Bing’s search market share in the U.S. is expanding and currently stands at 14.7% according to research firm ComScore, driven by increasing number of searches conducted online particularly through use of mobile phones. [] But the same cannot be said about its revenue per search (RPS) which is still a cause for concern for Microsoft. Notably Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) and Microsoft entered into a search advertising partnership in 2009 to boost their search revenues. Yahoo’s ads are powered by Microsoft’s adCenter platform, which has had consistent technical issues and has resulted in lower RPS for both companies.
Yahoo’s ex-CEO Carol Bartz has also publicly blamed Microsoft for Yahoo’s lower search revenues. [] However, Microsoft is experimenting with newer features like incorporating Facebook’s social graph data in Bing search results, which can be a threat to Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and its +1 initiative, and a boost to Bing’s search ad revenues. Microsoft Q3 2011 by the numbers: Record $16.43B, Windows revenue declines. Today, after the closing bell, Microsoft answered an oft-asked question: What would the quarter be with no new major products in the pipeline? Would Windows 7 and Windows Server R2 (released October 2009) and Office 2010 (released May 2010) provide enough sales tailwinds? For fiscal 2011 third quarter, ended March 31, Microsoft's revenue rose 13 percent to $16.43 billion, year over year. Operating income: $5.71 billion, or 10 percent increase.
Net income rose 31 percent to $5.23 billion, or 61 cents a share. Twenty-seven months ago, Microsoft stopped providing Wall Street analysts with quarterly and yearly guidance, in a move that is highly unusual for so large and so successful a public company. "We delivered strong third quarter revenue from our business customers, driven by outstanding performance from Windows Server, SQL database, SharePoint, Exchange, Lync and increasingly our cloud services," Microsoft COO Kevin Turner said in a statement. The PC Shipments Quandary Server & Tools. Investor Relations.