Social Media Mergers and Acquisitions By sar126 Aug 23, 2005 Facebook acquires AboutFace for 200k Nov 13, 2006 Google buys YouTube for 1.65 billion Apr 14, 2007 Google acquires DoubleClick for 3.1 billion Aug 10, 2009 Facebook acquires FriendFeed for 47.5 million May 13, 2010 Facebook acquires Friendster for 40 million Mar 20, 2011 Facebook acquires Snapt for 70 million Apr 9, 2012 Facebook acquires Instagram for 1 billion 2013 Twitter buys Vine for 30 million 2013 Google buys Waze for 966 million May 20, 2013 Yahoo buys Tumblr Feb 19, 2014 Facebook acquires WhatsApp for 19 billion Mar 25, 2014 Facebook acquires Oculus VR for 2 billion Jul 16, 2015 Facebook acquires Pebbles Interfaces for 60 million Nov 11, 2016 Facebook acquires Crowd Tangle Jun 13, 2017 Verizon Communication buys Yahoo for 4.8 billion
