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Few industries have been more transformed by technology than travel. Gone are the days when travel agents in physical offices meet with customers to arrange business and leisure trips. All the details, from booking flights to finding a place to crash, can now be worked out online by the consumer. In addition to driving prices down through cost comparison tools and online discounts, lodging, booking and itinerary systems have made taking a trip less cumbersome.

Henry Ford Health System answered speculation around a possible merger by issuing a statement saying the company is constantly looking to grow and improve. However it did not comment on the rumors. Henry Ford CEO Nancy Schlichting, President Wright Lassiter and Kaiser spokesman Marc Brown all declined interviews on the matter with the Detroit news publication Crain.

EMC currently operates in four particular sectors of the tech industry as: EMC Information Infrastructure, Pivotal, VMware Virtual Infrastructure and a newly launched Virtustream unit, according to Forbes. As part of the deal VMware, a provider of cloud and virtualization software and services, became an acquired tracking stock.

"Devon has made several bold moves over the past few years transforming the company into a leading North American onshore producer with a portfolio that provides an advantaged platform to generate long-term value growth for shareholders," said Hager. "These acquisitions materially core up our position in two of the best emerging North America development oil plays and further upgrade our asset portfolio."

Founded by New Girl actress Zooey Deschanel in 2011, the popular upbeat women's blog HelloGiggles (HG) has been purchased by TIME Inc. for a reported $20 million. The move is designed to capitalize on the unique content HG provides female readers seeking a life-enhancing, positive outlook on issues like culture, style and the workplace.

What is your company worth? The balance sheet of assets probably doesn't tell the entire story when you consider the potential for your company to generate serious revenue as it grows and thrives. The value of your startup might be even higher when you consider how it can be leveraged in conjunction with the resources and reach of a larger buying company. For that reason, determining what price or payment arrangement is "fair" can be tricky for entrepreneurs to determine.

Adobe has given technology users a suite of programs that helps with content creation. From Photoshop to InDesign and the convenient PDF format, the company is responsible for many of the products and applications professionals and creative types use every day.

One of the hardest parts of freelancing is getting paid. One of the most challenging aspects of working with freelancers, especially spread out geographically, is paying them. As a result, tech firms have seized that window to provide solutions for connecting freelance professionals with cash flow.

Crafting solutions for the medical industry is a lucrative and bustling corner of the tech marketplace. This week, it was announced that IBM acquired Explorys and Phytel, two health tech startups that stand to improve the company's health-focused data-analytics capabilities.

The terms of the deal were not disclosed, but TechCrunch reports that the acquisition entails a total rebrand of Monsoon. The firm has done work with other high-profile clients in recent years but now will serve Capital One for various strategic and branding needs.

As a meme, "there's an app for that" has come to fruition. Today, professionals and consumers rely on apps for virtually every area of their real and digital lives. As such, the platforms that power apps require management systems that are responsive, diagnostic and otherwise facilitate the implementation of many applications at one time.

This week, it was announced that Arcadia Healthcare Solutions has acquired Sage Technologies for $28 million. Arcadia is a Burlington, Massachusetts-based analysis firm and Sage Technologies is headquartered in Illinois.

Uber, the popular ride-sharing app firm, has purchased digital-navigation technology from Microsoft and acquired 100 employees from the company. In a marketplace dominated by strong navigational abilities, Uber has made other deals over the last year to boost its in-house capabilities.

Many users adopted Pandora early in the music streaming wave. As competitors like Spotify rose with more on-demand options for listeners, Pandora's radio format has undergone some tweaks and changes designed to give paid subscribers more liberty to control what they listen to. With the decline of record sales over the last decade or more, lucrative headline tours have been the best way for artists and companies adjacent to the music industry to turn a major profit.

"We will continue to publish under the same name and leadership, with editorial independence," Re/code founders Kara Swisher and Walt Mossberg wrote in a note to readers. "This is the next big step in our mission to bring you quality tech journalism, because our work will now be amplified and enhanced by Vox Media's deep and broad skill set."

This week, it was announced that Bloglovin', a blog reading platform, acquired social shopping startup called Finale. According to TechCrunch, this was in large part due to the firm's leader, Giordano Bruno Contestabile, who will become the new CEO of Bloglovin'.

One of the most lucrative and rapidly expanding tech fields is "ed tech," or startups and companies focused on improving educational experiences. From learning modules for secondary schools to coursework platforms for college students, solutions for teachers and administrators have become a hot commodity. One city where this is especially true is Boston, where colleges per capita outpaces every other metro area.

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Rooftop, founded in 2006, provides content obtained by taping comedy shows every night of the week, and the company states on its website that over 5,000 professional comedians, writers and film makers contribute material on a daily basis. That material is then available to be streamed or, in some cases, viewed on demand.

The best business decisions are not always clear especially in the realm of technology mergers and acquisitions. Recently, we started to discuss some of the primary factors to consider when thinking of selling your company. In that post, we talked a bit about the necessity of making preparations for the quick and profitable sale of your business.