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The memo in boardrooms from San Francisco to Singapore is the same: build fast, buy faster. A record-breaking wave of mergers and acquisitions is rewriting the rules of the global tech industry — and the deals getting done today will define tomorrow’s digital landscape. There is a particular kind of confidence that only comes when you are very sure about the future. It does not look like certainty, exactly — it looks like a wire transfer. It looks like a signed term sheet at a valuation that would have seemed absurd five years ago. It looks like a boardroom full of executives who have decided, collectively, that the price of waiting is higher than the price of buying. That is the mood that has taken hold of the global tech industry in 2026, and the numbers behind it are genuinely staggering. Global mergers and acquisitions reached a record $4.9 trillion in 2025 — surpassing the previous high set in 2021 — and the momentum has carried directly into this year. 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