15 Largest Internet Acquisitions Ever

14.  AOL buys MapQuest
Sale Price: $1.1 Billion
Year: 1999

MapQuest is an American free online web mapping service founded in 1967 as Cartographic Services in Chicago, Illinois. In 1994, it became an independent company and was renamed as GeoSystems. Later, in 1999, AOL acquired MapQuest with an outstanding amount of $ 1.1 billion.

13. Microsoft buys Fast Search & Transfer
Sale Price: $1.2 Billion
Year: 2008

Fast Search & Transfer (FAST), a Norwegian company based in Oslo. FAST focuses on data search technologies. It had offices located in Germany, Italy, Sri Lanka, France, Japan, the United Kingdom, the United States, Brazil, Mexico and other countries around the world. The company was founded in 1997.

On April 24, 2008, the operating system legend Microsoft closed its acquisition of FAST. FAST is now known as Microsoft Development Center Norway. Sale price was $1.2 billion.

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