The 12 game-changing enterprise deals of 2016

While 2016 was a lot of things, it certainly wasn't boring.In between things like Brexit and the US presidential election, 2016 was also a huge year for the world of enterprise technology, with mergers, IPOs, and power plays by the world's largest tech companies.These are deals that turned heads and made fortunes.We've looked back through the year and selected these 12 deals as the biggest and most important of the year.SEE ALSO:51 enterprise startups to bet your career on in 2017Microsoft's $26.2 billion acquisition of professional social network LinkedIn, the Redmond giant's biggest ever, raised a ton of eyebrows and ended the company's brief truce with cloud software provider Salesforce, which also wanted the company.Speaking of Salesforce, the cloud company went on a $5 billion shopping spree, buying up startups like Twin Prime, BeyondCore, and Coolan.Among Salesforce's purchases were Quip, a word processing startup that was founded by former Facebook CTO Bret Taylor. This purchase was taken as something of a challenge to Microsoft and its lucrative Office business.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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