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While the b2b media & tech sector saw just two more deals in the first nine months of 2016 over the same period in 2015, deal value is up 475% this year thanks to several mega deals, according to JEGI’s M&A Update.
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According to JEGI, deal valuation rose 75% across the board in the past year, driven in part by media and marketing-sector acquisitions such as Microsoft’s $26 billion deal to buy LinkedIn and Dentsu Aegis’s $1.5 billion purchase of Merkle.