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New report put out today by PricewaterhouseCoopers found tech landscape M & a. technology transactions amounted to $ 26 billion in the second quarter of 2011, slightly down from 26.6 billion worth of transactions in the first quarter, but up to 6.7% from the same quarter a year ago. These figures include only transactions closed in the quarter as Qualcomm 3.5 billion acquisition of Atheros and eBay 2.4 billion of GSI Commerce and do not include announced transactions like buying $ 8.5 billion Microsoft in Skype.
In terms of the volume of the transaction Internet transactions amounted to 32 per cent of the total, but semiconductor deal edged it in terms of the value of the dollar, from $ 6.8 billion worth of chip transactions closed in the quarter. There were 82 total technology transactions in the quarter (based on data from Thomson Reuters), the one thing above the first quarter and down from 95 a year earlier. In General, M & (A) the environment was flat, but remains healthy.
Tech IPOS, on the other hand, picking up with LinkedIn, Pandora, Yandex and Freescale Semiconductor all hitting the public markets in the second quarter. $ 4.5 billion in tech IPOs that accounted for almost 40 per cent of the total value of IPO during the quarter.
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