A total of 79 mergers and acquisitions raised $4.3 billion in the second quarter of 2010, according to a report by Dow Jones VentureSource. That’s a slight 4 percent drop from last year’s report. Overall, this year is slightly up, 12%.
The largest deal by far this past quarter was Google’s $750 million acquisition of AdMob, the large mobile advertising network.
Separately, the National Venture Capital Association counted 92 deals with a total disclosed value of $2.9 billion in a report of its own. The table below shows how far off today’s M&A market is from the booming days of 2006, when it seemed like Google bought everyone.
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Both NVCA and VentureSource also reported that IPOs were numerically up, but financially shaky, in the second quarter.
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