B
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$11,000,000,000
$11,000,000,000 -- total acquisition spend for IBM (2010)
IBM spent $11 billion on acquisitions over a five-year period leading up to August 2010.
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$11,000,000,000
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Currency Usd
Data Vintage
2010
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Evidence Quality
B
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Score breakdown
Extraction
75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Tukaiz
Primary
Tier B
http://www.tukaiz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=340&Itemid=81 ↗
Source Article
Acquisitions Provide a �Crystal Ball� for Our Data
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Tukaiz
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Methodology
Cumulative acquisition spend over five years, largely data/analytics and marketing technology firms
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IBM: $11,000,000,000 total acquisition spend. Source: Tukaiz (2010). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/ibm-acquisitions-11b-five-years
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