Facebook-Oculus VR Is Tech’s Latest Billion-Dollar Deal
In the wake of Facebook’s $19 billion Whatsapp deal, Mark Zuckerberg has grabbed even more headlines with his acquisition of Oculus VR. The move has proved controversial amongst fans of the company’s virtual reality headet, the Oculus Rift, and is the latest in a series of billion-dollar deals amongst America’s leading tech firms.
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This chart shows the value of selected tech company acquisitions (in billion U.S. dollars).
Price of selected acquisitions by Meta as of November 2022 (in million U.S. dollars)
Leading social media billionaires as of March 2026, by net worth (in billion U.S. dollars)
Price of the most expensive company acquisition deals in the technology industry from 2001 to January 2024 (in millions of U.S. dollars)
Value of acquisitions of venture-backed companies worldwide from Q4 2018 to Q1 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Largest video game industry acquisitions of gaming companies from the United States in 2022 YTD, by deal value (in million U.S. dollars)
Value of the largest acquisitions within the video game industry worldwide as of March 2025 (in billions of U.S. dollars)
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