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Deloitte has continued its flurry of recent moves with two technology acquisitions - NXG, a provider of SAP solutions, and Quattro, a customer relations management software company. Both businesses are based in Australia. The acquisitions are expected to be finalized by November 1. Deloitte did not announce the financial terms of either agreement.

"Chemical and process industries have always been strategic focus areas for YASH and the acquisition of the well regarded industry specialist SpectraSoft, aligns well with YASH's vision to capture more market share in the process industry vertical," Manoj Baheti, Founder and CEO of YASH Technologies, said in a statement.

According to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, BlackBerry executives recently flew out to California to meet with Facebook executives. Though the report was unclear about whether Facebook might actually put in a bid for BlackBerry (which has been seeking bids for the past several months) it certainly fueled speculation that Facebook is seriously interested in entering the smartphone business.

According to a report by TechCrunch, Apple completed 15 acquisitions, of which eight are currently known to the public. This is not a surprising move for the company, which is highly interested in acquiring smaller companies who have been developing specific skills or technologies that Apple can turn around and implement in future product lines.

When speculating for a merger or acquisition, it's likely that companies with high national profiles will catch your attention. The most buzzed-about mergers and acquisitions in tech happen in hotbeds like New York and Silicon Valley. However, it's likely that there are potential deal makers in your geographic region that are worth checking out, whether it's the hot new startup down the block or the established digital media company in your small city.

The first is that technology acquisitions are highly important decisions that have the ability to redefine a company's future. As such, businesses need to take their time and really scrutinize a deal before moving forward.

Red Arrow is a software architect that develops programs for business needs. Clinical Path Consulting works with healthcare providers that need help using their technology in more efficient ways while also meeting regulatory requirements. ChemWare is a laboratory information management system that helps labs improve the effectiveness of their automated environments.

There is one purpose common for every business company and that is to increase benefit and reduce failures. To achieve this purpose organizations make many techniques and do plenty of planning. One such technique is to offer new products by growing or increasing the size of the growth potential.

Unlike most investment banks, a well well-known M&A advisory company will get engaged more greatly in knowing the business and its long variety objectives. This can lead to a more holistic financing that details the long term needs of the business. Furthermore, during the real merger or acquisition, an M&A advisory company can offer a variety of allied solutions.

If faced with this decision or planning an acquisition strategy, one of the key aspects to consider is whether the company cultures will be a match. Every company has its own unique culture, which plays an integral role in the way that it operates. When merging two companies together, failing to adequately account for this factor may spoil an otherwise seemingly workable deal.

When two companies decide to merge, there could be a multitude of factors that motivate the deal. One company could approach another because it is interested in the technology that company has been developing. In some cases it might be more interested in the talented team that was responsible for creating a certain technology. Either way, the ultimate goal is to increase value and make a better company.

Telecom giants Sprint and T-Mobile are currently engaged in an intensifying, industry-wide price war. Provoked by failed merger talks earlier this summer, the battle continues to escalate, with both wireless carriers lowering prices. Late in August, Sprint announced a new strategy for generously-priced data plans to attract the competition's current customers, offering subscribers up to 10 lines (20 gigabytes of available data per month) for $100 a month while T-Mobile, for the same price, will provide four lines with 10 gigabytes of data.

"What won't change however is the number of new buyers coming to the table," writes Jacob Mullins in Business Insider. "These buyers aren't your typical Silicon Valley tech acquirers, they are more traditional household companies and brands looking to embrace technology to better reach end users and create greater efficiencies within their own businesses. And their appetite for boutique acquisitions of tech companies is just gearing up."

Next you must consider the risks presented to the legal, business, economical, and functional factors of both organizations, as well as the new combined organization. This needs many time of due diligence, and not only one phase can be neglected.

Personnel and departmental consolidation are a given in any merger. Naturally, integrating the moving parts of two or more operations requires some compromise, strategy and lateral thinking. However, in the last ten years, technology has further complicated the hurdles companies must clear to bridge a successful merger.

In the mergers-and-acquisitions romantic comedy Working Girl, the dramatic climax comes when protagonist Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) proves her M&A bona fides to an executive in an elevator. It's unclear where the trope of an "elevator pitch" began, but culturally, we fantasize about that critical moment when we win a client or partner over in under a minute.

Both manufacturers and suppliers have witnessed the shift toward consolidation, which comes at a time when global auto sales are projected to rise nearly 40 percent by 2020. That number currently stands at 83 million units and may grow to as many as 109 million.

The terms of the merger were not disclosed, but a company as massive as Microsoft oversees scores of mergers and acquisitions as a method of growth and industry dominance. For many small tech firms with a clearly defined but narrow niche of service, acquisition by a company like Apple, Microsoft or any number of web giants is a sought-after ticket. 

On this blog, we recently discussed 2015's ambitious start to the first quarter, but a new study about 2014 tech M&A activity puts the rapid growth into perspective. According to Tech World, the total value of mergers and acquisitions in the tech industry hit the $1 trillion mark last year.

Shell and BG Group are going forward with their planned merger after they received approval from a number of world regulators in recent weeks. The merger of the two energy companies will be the largest since Exxon and Mobil joined forces in the 1990s.