Archive for: May 14, 2014

Is it 2007 redux? Cash sitting on balance sheets is at record highs; interest rates are low; and banks are lending at multiples we haven’t seen in years. The result: so far this year there has been more than $49bn in announced m&a transactions, more than double the value in the same period last year, according to Bloomberg. And the big keep getting bigger: Facebook is buying WhatsApp for $19bn and Oculus for $2bn; Google bought NEST for $3.2bn; IBM bought Silverpop on the heels of their March acquisition of Cloudant. It’s not 2007. But it is a busy time.…

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