The company set a new world record for the most profitable quarter of any company in history.
The deal is worth $15.4 billion and is subject to regulatory approval in the UK.
The company's Oculus VR bought Nimble VR and 13th Lab, and it added QuickFire and wit.ai to its shopping cart.
Mergers, acquisitions, listings and de-listings - it all happened in 2014.
China levies $140?million in back taxes from Microsoft in the first major case concerning cross-border tax evasion in the country.
The company is taking over Lufthansa's IT infrastructure services division, in a deal worth €1?billion.
The Internet firm acquires BrightRoll, provider of an automated advertising service, for $640 million.
The company is the focus of regulatory investigations in Europe and the US, as well as China.
The company acquired CloudScaling, Maginatics and Spanning.
The company paid Globalfoundries to buy its unprofitable chip-manufacturing unit, and reported poor quarterly figures.
The merger talks between the two companies have been formally terminated.
Hewlett-Packard is splitting the company into two separately listed units, with annual revenue of just under $56 billion each.
The company skips a number as it announces Windows 10, due to ship by the end of 2015.