Why tech merger mania is possible in 2017 under Trump

The past few years have been extremely busy in the world of mergers and acquisitions, setting records around the world. In tech, the semiconductor industry has rapidly consolidated while mid-sized players like EMC and LinkedIn were gobbled up by larger peers. But there’s still some potentially massive deals to come in 2017 that may not have even been imaginable in 2016.
Call it the Trump bump for tech M&A.
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