Here are the top five acquisitions and mergers of the 21st century

The acquisition of Twitter by Tesla co-founder Elon Musk for $42 billion is a huge deal and has become the talk of the town. However, there have been several deals which are substantially bigger than this, even crossing the $100 billion mark.

In this post, we look at some of the biggest acquisitions of the 21st century. The deals include the merger of AOL and Time Warner, the acquisition of Verizon Wireless and the merger of Heinz and Kraft.