$Microsoft(MSFT.US)$'s agreement to pay almost $69 billion for $Activision Blizzard(ATVI.US)$ would market the highest price ever paid by a U.S. tech company in an acquisition.
The deal is nearly the equivalent of the cumulative payout of Microsoft's five previous largest acquisitions
At the time of the LinkedIn announcement, Microsoft was valued at about $400 billion, so the purchase amounted to roughly 6.5% of its market cap. When it tried to buy Yahoo, Microso...