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There are plenty of tech deals to be had for Black Friday, but what about smartphone deals?

Joining the many retailers that are already offering buyers a variety of tech deals for Black Friday 2014, Google has listed various special Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals in its Play Store.

Amazon is currently running Boxing Day / Post-Christmas sales that include a veritable number of tech deals and gadget bargains.

From the client perspective, what can be done to forestall these triggers and improve the chances of tech deal success?

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-- Although neither side of the deal provided any revenue figures, Axel Springer said the site's revenue is growing at about 50 % per year, and if it hadn't invested in its new vertical Tech Insider it would have already broke even.

Consumers flood stores and online sites in search of deals on tech, clothes, shoes, home goods, and more.

Not only had Mayer bought a string of tech startups, but she's signed high - profile deals with folks like Katie Couric to produce original content.

Even without Facebook's current predicament, the history of big consumer tech companies dealing with medical data is not without blemish.

Rep. Sarbanes said he was concerned by the U.S.'s lack of tools for dealing with tech companies that fail to prevent the misuse of users» data.

Harley Finkelstein, Chief Platform Officer of Canada's tech darling Shopify, took on a second job this year as a judge on CBC's Next Gen Den, the web - only version of the hit show Dragon's Den, featuring younger entrepreneurs and riskier deals.

Buried amidst all the latest unprecedented news from the White House yesterday, from the Twitter firing of the Secretary of State to the blocking of the largest proposed tech deal ever, was the quiet release of the annual Harris Poll Reputation Quotient ranking.

As big a deal as Salesforce's planned acquisition of MuleSoft is, it may be just one small chapter in what turns out to be an epic year for tech mergers and acquisitions.

British health tech start - up Medopad has raised $ 28 million in its first round of financing, after having struck # 100 million ($ 143 million) worth of deals in China with firms including Tencent.

TECH DEAL: Foxconn, a Taiwan - based electronics manufacturer, is stepping out of the shadows.

He shocked it again in 2015 when he announced that the Texas company would merge with Massachusetts» EMC, another tech industry stalwart, in one of the biggest deals in business, worth $ 67.7 billion.

We've scoured the deals to find the best tech deals under $ 50, and there are a lot of them.

For some reason, the tech press and now the WSJ continue to beat this drum like it's some sort of big deal.

Let's face it, it's not always easy to stay on top of things when you're catching flights, experiencing tech issues and dealing with language barriers.

A lot of tech campuses are structured to provide perks like food, gyms, laundry, etc. so that workers can work longer and not have to deal with those things outside of work.

According to a recent report from Reuters, the tech giant is signing deals with companies like BuzzFeed, Vox, and Group Nine (the publisher behind brands like NowThis and The Dodo) for more TV - style video, both short clips of about 10 minutes in length and longer shows of 20 minutes or more.

Naracoota Resources has announced plans to exit mining and enter the tech sphere through the reverse takeover of a health informatics company backed by Perth technology entrepreneur Nathan Buzza, in a deal worth $ 12.4 million.

What's required: This tech - heavy industry requires a great deal of knowledge about what can be done to improve the transportation industry.

While there are plenty of examples of tech M&A disasters (AOL and Time Warner, Myspace and News Corp, Skype and eBay — and now Microsoft) there are only a few that can claim the deal was in any way actually good for the new company or for the industry.

For the food tech startup Dinner Lab, however, having a whole clan of investors does exactly the opposite: It keeps the creative control of the company consolidated, untouched and unfettered by the otherwise omnipotent hand that comes with a big check from a VC deal.

And if you have some interest in seeing what others have planned for tech products, here's a look at some of the best tech deals available now and into the next week.

The deal marks a win for Credit Suisse, which has seen a number of departures from its tech M&A team in recent months.

Imagine, the next time you have to give a presentation you didn't have to lug your laptop and remember the right cables to make it happen — not to mention deal with the headache of getting all of that tech to cooperate.

The company's decision to decline what would be the biggest - ever tech deal simply opens the door for the inevitable proxy battle that will ultimately decide the fate of the chipmaker.

If you're looking to spend your money on the most valuable discounts of Black Friday, you might find yourself browsing the tech deals — of which there are many.

Who knows, but the founders definitely found success amid a consumer lack of tech savviness specific to the late»90s, along with a healthy dislike of dealing with mailing checks.

Yet, even with the consolidation of money and power, 2017 featured a notable dearth of large tech deals.

One thing that helps Roku stand out is the fact that, unlike many of its biggest rivals, the Los Gatos, Calif. - based tech company relies solely on deals with outside content producers.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

One encouraging sign for both Dropbox and its investors, though, is that some of the biggest tech companies were all active acquirers before going public: Twitter and Facebook both had 31 acquisitions before their IPOs, while Zynga and Groupon each had 20 and 19 deals, respectively, CB Insights noted.

This common idiom, widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, is what drives a great deal of innovation in today's tech - meets - business world.

These deals are the latest in a series of investments by Microsoft and other tech giants; last year it bought fiber capacity from Seaborn Networks to build better links to South America.

Last year, Microsoft Ventures chief Nagraj Kashyap told VentureBeat that the overwhelming majority of startups the company invests in are using clouds that compete with Azure at the time of the deal, and the tech titan doesn't force a change.

From enterprise software synergies to semiconductor consolidation, these are the seven biggest deals in tech M&A of the quarter.

Verizon (vz) closed its $ 4.48 billion deal with Yahoo last week, marking the end of the tech pioneer as a standalone internet company, which was once valued at more than $ 100 billion.

Realizing that, Fortune has compiled the following guide to some of the best tech deals offered at three prominent retailers: Amazon, Best Buy, and Target.

The music arm of Chinese tech giant Tencent Holdings plans to go public by the end of the year, in a deal which it could raise between $ 3 billion and $ 4 billion, IFR, a Thomson Reuters publication, reported.

The reported Dell - EMC (EMC) deal, one that neither company has confirmed, epitomizes the sort of financial engineering that has inflamed older tech companies of late.

One of the first references that popped up after the deal was announced — other than the obvious comparison to the disastrous Time Warner - AOL merger — was to Verizon's recent attempt to create its own tech - news site, a short - lived effort known as SugarString.

This deal between the city and tech companies including Google and Facebook has been in the works for some time, The Wall Street Journal reported, but a recent string of protests in the last month (including activists smashing a bus window in Oakland, and multiple instances of protesters physically blocking buses) have escalated the need for a new policy.

The IPO market for tech companies has been almost moribund this year, but a recent successful deal is raising hopes of a comeback.

The deal puts the defense tech company in a strong position as it bids for the right to upgrade the U.S.'s ground - based arsenal of Minuteman III nuclear - armed missiles, a procurement program with a value estimated at over $ 60 billion over its expected lifetime.

They argued that it put too much control in tech firms» hands, cited piracy concerns, noted how they make specific deals to determine the order of channels (something a new UI could upend), and generally proclaimed it too technically difficult to implement.

And although the Black Friday deals extend across all of Walmart's departments, the company's offers on tech are quite good.

In terms of the broader macro backdrop for tech M&A going forward, it helps that many recent deals have gone so smoothly.

Although technically not a retailer, eBay (ebay) is rounding up some of the best tech deals from its various sellers and making them available for the week, starting Nov. 25.