Tech Companies - Merger and Acquisitions Dataset - Software Companies

This dataset contains the list of acquisitions made by the following companies:

Microsoft, Google, IBM, Hp, Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, eBay, Adobe, Citrix, Redhat, Blackberry, Disney

The attributes include the date, year, month of the acquisition, name of the company acquired, value or the cost of acquisition, business use-case of the acquisition, and the country from which the acquisition was made. The source of the dataset is Wikipedia, TechCrunch, and CrunchBase.

Interesting Tasks and Analysis Ideas

• Which company makes the acquisitions quickly
• What is the trend of business use-cases among the acquired companies throughout the years
• What can be forecasted for upcoming years in terms of acquisitions
• Predict who is likely to make next acquisitions and when