# Examples of FAANG mergers

- [2020-10 Most internet providers are exempted from discussions about tech antitrust issues](https://web.archive.org/web/20201031201414/https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/10/the-tech-antitrust-problem-no-one-is-talking-about/).
- [2021-07 1 in 153 employees in the USA works for Amazon](https://web.archive.org/web/20210730163939/https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-employees-number-1-of-153-us-workers-head-count-2021-7).
- [2021-10 Intuit, the creator of TurboTax, has been politically fighting free, easy tax filing in the USA](https://web.archive.org/web/20130326181821/https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-maker-of-turbotax-fought-free-simple-tax-filing), including [California's attempts to spearhead the concept](https://web.archive.org/web/20211021114921/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2021-10-21/california-tried-to-save-the-nation-from-the-misery-of-tax-filing-then-intuit-stepped-in).
- [2020-09 Four gargantuan publishers have filed a lawsuit against the Internet Archive for lending books out for free](https://web.archive.org/web/20200910140734/https://www.thenation.com/article/society/publishers-are-taking-the-internet-to-court/), [mostly because they haven't been using Controlled Digital Lending](https://web.archive.org/web/20220124024512/https://popula.com/2022/01/22/what-kind-of-writer-accuses-libraries-of-stealing/).
- [2022-04 Six media companies own everything on television](https://web.archive.org/web/20220412164250/https://rebeccastrong.substack.com/p/big-media-big-conflicts-of-interest?s=r).
- [2022-08 Amazon is acquiring iRobot, the maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, for about $1.7 billion](https://web.archive.org/web/20220805122541/https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/05/amazon-to-acquire-maker-of-roomba-vacuum-for-roughly-1point7-billion.html).
- [2022-09 Citrix acquired and merged with TIBCO for $16.5 billion](https://web.archive.org/web/20230303162747/https://www.cloud.com/news/press-release).
- [2022-09 Adobe has acquired Figma for $20 billion](https://archive.is/20220915183512/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma).
- [2022-11 Evernote was acquired by Bending Spoons](https://web.archive.org/web/20221116142347/https://evernote.com/blog/evernote-next-move-joining-bending-spoons/).
- [2023-09 Cisco has acquired Splunk](https://web.archive.org/web/20230921121559/https://www.splunk.com/en_us/blog/leadership/splunk-and-cisco-unite-to-accelerate-digital-resilience-as-one-of-the-leading-global-software-companies.html).
- [2023-10 Microsoft has acquired Activision-Blizzard](https://web.archive.org/web/20231108090726/https://blog.zarfhome.com/2023/10/microsoft-consumes-activision).
- [2023-11 VMware is now part of Broadcom](https://web.archive.org/web/20231122150220/https://www.broadcom.com/info/vmware).