2015 ICON Technology Mid Year M&A Review
23 Jul 2015The valuation of Global Technology M&A Deals are in record territory and the number of deals have increased in 2015. Hot sectors include: payments, big data and IoT.
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2014 M&A Review
08 Jan 2015Markets had a tougher time in 2014 as the pace of world growth stuttered along. Interest rates remain very low, reflecting a continued low growth, low inflation world. The big fall in oil prices in 2014 should boost growth in 2015, but inevitably interest rates will start rising (albeit modestly) at some point.
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2014 Mid Year M&A Review
17 Jul 2014The Technology M&A market certainly had its share of excitement in the first half of 2014 with another increase in the number of deals announced. Google and Yahoo are feasting themselves, while Cisco remains sidelined. Facebook paid a staggering $380m per employee for WhatsApp and also acquired a virtual reality headset business at 100x revenues
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2013 M&A Review
22 Apr 2013A huge amount of medicine, in the form of cheap money, has flooded the world, particularly in the US, UK and Japan. As a result, ultra-low interest rates have inflated the value of assets globally
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2013 Mid Year M&A Review
22 Feb 2013The macro picture globally is still one of low economic growth, low inflation and low interest rates. To try and kick-start growth, the Fed started its latest round of quantitative easing (QE3) in Q312 at $40bn a month and then increased it to $85bn by the end of last year.
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2012 Mid Year M&A Review
25 Apr 2012After a bright start to 2012, following a €1trillion Christmas bailout for the Euro,the world economy is again stuttering and global markets are being driven by the impact of the euro crisis.
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2012 M&A Review
22 Apr 2012Equity markets finished 2012 strongly and FTSE ended up a healthy 6%. However, technology shares had a great year, with a 20% rise in Techmark and 16% rise in NASDAQ indices.
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