{"source_url": "https://techcrunch.com", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2020/01/01/these-ten-enterprise-ma-deals-totaled-over-40b-in-2019/", "title": "These ten enterprise M&A deals totaled over $40B in 2019 \u2013 TechCrunch", "top_image": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/m-a-2019b.png?w=753", "meta_img": "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/m-a-2019b.png?w=753", "images": ["https://www.facebook.com/tr?id=1447508128842484&ev=PageView&noscript=1", "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/m-a-2019b.png?w=753", "https://techcrunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/m-a-2019b.png?w=730"], "movies": [], "text": "It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn\u2019t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half last year\u2019s, totaling $40.6 billion.\n\nThis year\u2019s biggest purchase was Salesforce buying Tableau for $15.7 billion, which would have been good for third place last year behind IBM\u2019s mega deal plucking Red Hat for $34 billion and Broadcom grabbing CA Technologies for $18.8 billion.\n\nContributing to this year\u2019s quieter activity was the fact that several typically acquisitive companies \u2014 Adobe, Oracle and IBM \u2014 stayed mostly on the sidelines after big investments last year. It\u2019s not unusual for companies to take a go-slow approach after a big expenditure year. Adobe and Oracle bought just two companies each with neither revealing the prices. IBM didn\u2019t buy any.\n\nMicrosoft didn\u2019t show up on this year\u2019s list either, but still managed to pick up eight new companies. It was just that none was large enough to make the list (or even for them to publicly reveal the prices). When a publicly traded company doesn\u2019t reveal the price, it usually means that it didn\u2019t reach the threshold of being material to the company\u2019s results.\n\nAs always, just because you buy it doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s always going to integrate smoothly or well, and we won\u2019t know about the success or failure of these transactions for some years to come. For now, we can only look at the deals themselves.", "keywords": [], "meta_keywords": [""], "tags": [], "authors": [], "publish_date": "Wed Jan  1 00:00:00 2020", "summary": "", "article_html": "", "meta_description": "It would be hard to top the 2018 enterprise M&A total of a whopping $87 billion, and predictably this year didn\u2019t come close. In fact, the top 10 enterprise M&A deals in 2019 were less than half last year\u2019s, totaling $40.6 billion. 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