As critics question Twitter under Elon Musk, a look at 5 tech acquisitions that failed

Elon Musk finally has Twitter in his kitty. After his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, the world’s richest man and owner of Tesla and SpaceX, signalled changes at the micro-blogging platform which will include a new content moderation council and a move to reinstate “free speech” as he calls it. All this has triggered questions about what the future of the social platform will be and if its business model itself will change to look beyond advertising. Musk is famously unpredictable and that makes this an even more uncertain future for Twitter. And that is why we thought it’s a good time to relook at five much-hyped tech mergers and acquisitions that have been epic failures.