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Spending on Security Companies Booming, PwC Finds With the exception of the recessionary year of 2009, the last three years has seen an M&A mini-boom with spending on security companies rising every year to reach record heights in 2011, which has already recorded $10.1 billion of deals.
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Donations Go Mobile Text-to-give efforts are expanding as charities make it easy to make contributions on the go.
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iOS Devices Stretch Market Lead Over Android Devices running Apple's iOS increased their share of the global mobile operating system market to 24.2 percent in November, analysts report.
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Spending on Security Companies Booming, PwC Finds With the exception of the recessionary year of 2009, the last three years has seen an M&A mini-boom with spending on security companies rising every year to reach record heights in 2011, which has already recorded $10.1 billion of deals.
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