In 2012, Microsoft admitted to a major ________ mistake when it wrote off essentially the entire 6.2 billion USD it paid for a digital advertising firm, aQuantive, that it purchased in 2007.

A. acquisition
B. divestiture
C. expansion
D. cost savings


Answer: A

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