A number of months and a quick 11-day negotiation later, WhatsApp and its 450 million active monthly users ended up in the hands of Google’s arch rivalĪlso Read: Disney CEO May Sell The Company To Apple, Claims Firm's Insider 4) Groupon rejected $6 billion offer from Google (2010) WhatsApp rejected Google's offer, which could have been worth millions of dollars, as per The Information report. Google h ad approached WhatsApp with an odd offer- It would pay Whatsapp in exchange for the right to be notified if the messaging app entered into acquisition talks with other companies. The news world was abuzz in April 2013 with repor ts of Google being in the final stages of buying Whatsapp for $1 billion. 3) Whatsapp rejected $1 billion offer from Google (2013) It had reportedly offered $1billion for Snapchat earlier that year, which too was rejected. 2014) before considering any offers in the hope that Snapchat’s numbers will grow enough to justify an even larger valuation.Īnd this was not Facebook's first offer. It was said that Evan Spiegel, Snapchat’s co-founder was at that time waiting until early next year (i.e. The Wall Street Journal reported that the all-cash offer came as other investors were valuing the loss making two-year-old company at over $4billion.

Snapchat had rejected a $3billion buyout offer from Facebook a decade ago in November 2013. Unfortunately, after the rejection, Yahoo! stock plummeted, Yang left the company, and Microsoft moved on.Ģ) Snapchat rejected $3 billion offer from Facebook (2013) Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang felt the offer by was too low and rejected Microsoft’s bid of In a last ditch effort, Microsoft reportedly rushed to defend against a Google global takeover by offering to buy Yahoo! for $44.6 billion. In 2008, Google was on the rise, and there was nothing anyone could do about it. 1) Yahoo! rejected $44.6 billion offer from Microsoft (2008) Read on as we unfold the list of some of the biggest tech mergers that got rejected. That's how much some tech companies had rejected when approached for a merger/acquisition in the last decade or so.įrom Yahoo, Microsoft, Whtsapp, Google, Twitter to Facebook, the list involves a lot of big names that were given no as an answer despite offering millions of dollars for a deal. Millions of dollars, and in some cases even billions of dollars.

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