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Many of these have been fuelled by its acquisition of Jet.com, which it purchased in 2016 for $3 billion.

This is a strategy also underscored by its acquisition of Geoloqi in October 2012 when it also indicated that it was preparing an iOS developer-friendly mapping library.

Twitter also notes today that its new relationship with IBM was made possible by its acquisition of Gnip earlier this year, as it provided the enterprise-grade platform capable of delivering its 15 billion "social activities" created per day to Twitter partners, now including IBM.

Nevertheless, helped by its acquisition of Montana Power's transmission assets, it has seen decent revenue growth.

It's also diversifying by moving into concierge, fuelled by its acquisition of a concierge service called Solve at the end of last year.

Facebook's dominance in photo uploading and sharing was strengthened by its acquisition of Instagram, which closed this month.

Its problems were made worse by its acquisition two years ago of a struggling rival, Canadian Airlines International, and the closing of American airspace and subsequent slump in air travel after the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.

Hewlett-Packard, helped by its acquisition last year of Compaq Computer, is about even with Dell in worldwide market share.

The company has also been expanding to non-textbook content, as signaled by its acquisition last fall of the Betterbook and Ready, Set, Baby! brands from Open Air Publishing.

Microsoft made news this week by announcing its acquisition of software version control and code hosting platform GitHub for $7.5 billion.

As a point of reference, LinkedIn last week said it has around 13,000 courses on its site now — an inventory that it was able to boost in part by way of its acquisition of Lynda.com.