2022 set to be most acquisitive year for global tech - Gartner

Global M&A activity involving technology providers will exceed previous highs recorded in 2018 by next year, analyst firm Gartner has said. The market watcher claims acquisitions of tech providers were briefly impacted in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic, but M&A activity quickly rebounded into 2021 as the economy began to recover. It added that deals were more negatively impacted during the second quarter of 2020, but activity in Q4 was higher than in the last two years.  Acquisitions ...