[Eudaimion]

Do you have any recent examples? Skype acquisition was more than a decade ago ( during the Ballmar era).

[xxs]

video game industry - zenimax, activision blizzard

AI/speech recognition - nuance communications (the stuff behind apple's siri)

side note: does linkedIn count?

[xxs]

self reply since it's most relevant to "Teams", and I knew I had missed something. Microsoft did try to buy 'discord' but the price was not right.

[sunaookami]

Not an acquisition per se but: OpenAI