Amazon.com last week announced plans for the largest acquisition in its history -- snapping up online shoe retailer Zappos in a deal currently valued at about $880 million. Now the folks at Meet the Boss have come out with a cool map that shows the Zappos deal is part of a larger Amazon shopping spree in recent years.
Amazon doesn't share the cost of all its acquisitions, but as you can see, the company started ramping up its deal-making again last year. This year alone, Amazon made a number of acquisitions and investments (Foodista, Lexcycle, and Snaptell) before grabbing Zappos.
The last time Amazon went on a major buying spree was 1999, at the height of the dot-com era. After that, the online retail giant had a long dry spell until things started to crank up again last year.
As TechCrunch, which first noted the map, writes, "Who will be next on the map?"
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