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Corporate America's Dealmakers Are Cross-Pollinating
Convergence continues to be a running theme for both large and small transactions.
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Millennials are known to dislike labels. Now the mergers and acquisitions market is shedding them, too.
One of 2017's big deal trends was the blurring of industry lines. Retailers are buying software and online outposts, wireless providers are looking to own content, and Amazon.com Inc., the king of e-commerce, scooped up a brick-and-mortar food retailer, Whole Foods Market.