Tencent fits that mold. Microsoft big purchases outside media ones that have mostly if not completely been divested are aQuantive, Skype, Yammer, Nokia, Mojang

Tencent fits that mold. Microsoft big purchases outside media ones that have mostly if not completely been divested are aQuantive, Skype, Yammer, Nokia, Mojang, GitHub. - Many of their big 90s acquisitions like Hotmail and Vision were part of their core products. - Nokia, Danger were for their phone business. - aQuantive was a response to Yahoo, Google buying up advertising properties - Yammer was for their central enterprise moves - Mojang along with a number of other gaming purchases like Rare Obsidian, and backend companies are for their strong gaming division. - GitHub fits in with their Azure and developer focus. - Skype could’ve fit in better and did try and was for their cohesive enterprise and all in one attempts. It fits too. - LinkedIn is the only one you can really say was a big purchase without the same level of synergy or drop in support to the company. Microsoft is as far from a conglomerate as you can get. - If you want tech conglomerates, look at Tencent. Their portfolio is absolutely absurd. Even SoftBank outside the vision fund is a tech conglomerate.