Map: Amazon.com cranks up pace of acquisitions again

Amazon.com last week announced plans for the largest acquisition in its history -- snapping up online shoe retailer Zappos in a deal currently valued at about $880 million. Now the folks at Meet the Boss have come out with a cool map that shows the Zappos deal is part of a larger Amazon shopping spree in recent years.

Amazon doesn't share the cost of all its acquisitions, but as you can see, the company started ramping up its deal-making again last year. This year alone, Amazon made a number of acquisitions and investments (Foodista, Lexcycle, and Snaptell) before grabbing Zappos.

The last time Amazon went on a major buying spree was 1999, at the height of the dot-com era. After that, the online retail giant had a long dry spell until things started to crank up again last year.

As TechCrunch, which first noted the map, writes, "Who will be next on the map?"

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ERIC ENGLEMAN is senior technology staff writer for TechFlash and the Puget Sound Business Journal, covering online retail giant Amazon.com. Engleman tracks Amazon's increasingly complex business, spanning ecommerce, Kindle, cloud computing, and more. He's been covering technology and other industries for the Business Journal since 2003.

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